"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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Granville Sharp
Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was a British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade, and classicist.
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