Granville Sharp and the Freedom of Slaves in England
Author | : Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : |
"Authorities consulted": pages [147]-148.
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Author | : Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : |
"Authorities consulted": pages [147]-148.
Author | : Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Slave trade |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Walvin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1986-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349081914 |
Author | : Granville Sharp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : 9781107590052 |
Author | : Andrew Lyall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : 9781509911240 |
Author | : Adam Hochschild |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780618619078 |
This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar, and gave a platform to freed slaves.
Author | : Granville Sharp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : 9781107589971 |
Self-educated in languages and the law, the author Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was a leading anti-slavery campaigner. Though many of his associates in the abolitionist movement were dissenters or freethinkers, he was an Anglican very much concerned with the fate of the church in America after the war of independence. His family consigned his archives to the painter, playwright and author Prince Hoare (1755-1834), who published this biography in 1820. Sharp is less well remembered than other British abolitionists such as Clarkson and Wilberforce, but it was his work which, in 1772, brought the landmark case of James Somerset before Lord Mansfield, who upheld Sharp's legal arguments: as a result, it was henceforth understood that any slave reaching the shores of England became free. Sharp's continuing work for abolition, and his many other charitable and scholarly activities, are detailed in this fascinating work, drawn directly from his own writings.
Author | : Padraic X. Scanlan |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300231520 |
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade was abolished, anti-slavery activists in England profited, colonial officials in Freetown, Sierra Leone, relied on former slaves as soldiers and as cheap labor, and the British armed forces conscripted former slaves to fight in the West Indies and in West Africa. At once scholarly and compelling, this history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone draws on a wealth of archival material. Scanlan’s social and material study offers insight into how the success of British anti-slavery policies were used to justify colonialism in Africa. He reframes a moment considered to be a watershed in British public morality as rather the beginning of morally ambiguous, violent, and exploitative colonial history.