"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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Quoted in Black Slaves in Britain by Folarin O. Shyllon, Institute of Race Relations/Oxford University Press (1974)
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Granville Sharp
Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 β 6 July 1813) was a British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade, and classicist.
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