In 1772, evangelical Granville Sharp argued that English law stretching back to Magna Carta did not justify the practice.
42 months ago

The trial laid bare the horror and inhumanity of the Atlantic slave trade and galvanized the nascent movement to abolish it.
55 months ago

The triangular relationship among Granville Sharp, Anthony Benezet, and Benjamin Rush is a telling one...helping us map Philadelphia's emergence as a center of...
24 months ago

Known for his famous rule proving Jesus's divinity in the Greek New Testament, Granville Sharp was more than a Bible scholar—he was a gospel...
26 months ago

Whenever you have landmark historical events you are tempted to zip past the guy who was intimately involved with the event in favor of the...
142 months ago

In the summer of 1783, less than two years after the defeat of the British army at Yorktown, more than 3000 former slaves left New York City to make a new...
58 months ago

233 years ago Granville Sharp argued that black lives matter. But for 233 years the true sentiments of Britain's leading abolitionist were...
102 months ago

In the early 1770s, a number of American colonial legislatures asked the British government to curb the slave trade to America.
225 months ago

The American revolution occurred at a time when critics of Negro slavery were advancing proposals for its abolition. Granville Sharp, John Wesley,...
71 months ago

The Slavery Abolition Act finally took effect on 1 August 1834, 188 years ago today. It expanded upon the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
29 months ago