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Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre

Michelle Faubert

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Regional- und Ländergeschichte

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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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abolitionism, the Zong massacre, the Zong, Olaudah Equiano, Slave ship, British abolitionist, Sharp's letters, British Library, Zong slave-ship massacre, Granville Sharp, British Library archives, the abolition movement, abolition of the slave trade, history of slavery, the Zong trial