Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre

Michelle Faubert

Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG
Country
Switzerland
Published
13 August 2018
Pages
166
ISBN
9783319927855

Granville Sharp’s Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre

Michelle Faubert

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This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. In the letter, Sharp demands that the Admiralty bring murder charges against the crew of the Zong for forcing 132 enslaved Africans overboard to their deaths. Uncovered by Michelle Faubert at the British Library in 2015, the letter is reproduced here, accompanied by her examination of its provenance and significance for the history of slavery and abolition. As Faubert argues, the British Library manuscript is the only fair copy of Sharp’s letter, and extraordinary evidence of Sharp’s role in the abolition of slavery.

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