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Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was an English scholar, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Born in Durham , he initially worked as a civil servant in the Board of Ordnance .
On 19 March 1783, Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, told the anti-slave-trade activist Granville Sharp of the events aboard Zong and a newspaper soon carried a lengthy account, reporting that the captain had ordered the slaves killed in three batches.
Granville Sharp the Abolitionist Rescuing a Slave from the Hands of His Master, on oil, by James Hayllar, 1864. Depicts Granville Sharp defending the slave, Jonathan Strong West Indian slave
The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to as the Abolition Society or Anti-Slavery Society, was a British abolitionist group formed on 22 May 1787. The objective of abolishing the slave trade was achieved in 1807.
Sharp was a prominent slavery abolitionist and also a musician. [3] His source was William Dickson, who lived in Barbados for about 13 years from 1772 and was secretary to the governor there. Dickson was a critic of the slave trade and published two books in 1789 and 1814 describing slave-owning society in the British West Indies.
In a 1776 letter to Granville Sharp, an attorney who fought to help former slaves retain their freedom, Oglethorpe proclaimed “Africa had produced a race of heroes” in its kings and military ...
Granville Sharp acquired Lapwing to facilitate the work of the St George's Bay Company in providing a safe haven for destitute Africans in Sierra Leone and elsewhere. The broker for the company purchased Lapwing for £186 on 12 February 1790 at the Customs House. [ 2 ]
The whole structure is 68 feet (20.6 m) high. On three of the four sides are carved bas-reliefs, representing William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp, both prominent figures in the campaign against the slave trade, and a manacled slave in a beseeching attitude. The fourth side bears an inscription to the memory of Clarkson.