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Granville Sharp
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Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was a British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade, and classicist.
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The boy seemed ready to die... he almost lost the use of his Legs and Feet... and to compleat his misfortunes was afflicted with so violent a disorder in his Eyes that there appeared to be the utmost danger of his becoming totally blind.
Describing his first meeting with Jonathan Strong (slave).
Quoted in Black Slaves in Britain by Folarin O. Shyllon, Institute of Race Relations/Oxford University Press (1974)
Why is it that the poor sooty African meets with so different a measure of justice in England and America, as to be adjudged free in the one, and in the other held in the most abject Slavery?
An Essay on Slavery, proving from Scripture its Inconsistency with Humanity and Religion (1776)
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Category:Abolitionists
Category:1813 deaths
Category:People from England