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Granville Sharp, né en Angleterre à Durham le 10 novembre 1735, mort le 6 juillet 1813 à Fulham, était un savant britannique converti au christianisme évangélique et l'un des pionniers de la lutte pour l'abolition de l'esclavage, « premier héros anglais de l'abolition ». Wikipedia  

✵ 10. novembre 1735 – 6. juillet 1813
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Granville Sharp: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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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)

“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?”

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

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