Granville Sharp Quotes

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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.”

Granville Sharp

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)

Boy , Affliction , Appearance

“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?”

Granville Sharp

An Essay on Slavery, proving from Scripture its Inconsistency with Humanity and Religion (1776)

Justice

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