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A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery

A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery

Sharp, Granville

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition

General SociologyGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1108075657
ISBN13: 9781108075657
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 17 2014
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This work by the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp (1735-1813) brings together legal and historical documents, as well as the author's own legal arguments, demonstrating that slavery was illegal and therefore could not be upheld in England. Furthering his own intellectual development while working for a linen draper, Sharp later became a government clerk and pursued a writing career. His awakening to the horrors of the slave trade resulted from a chance encounter with an injured slave seeking help from his physician brother. Carrying out the necessary legal research, Sharp published this book in 1769 to demonstrate that slavery has no basis in English law. In 1772, the landmark case of James Somerset was brought before Lord Mansfield, who upheld Sharp's contention: as a result, it was henceforth understood that any slave reaching the shores of England became free. Sharp's memoirs of his life are also reissued in this series.

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