Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre
Michelle Faubert
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9783319927855
- ISBN-10
- 331992785X
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Year
- 2018
- Publication date
- 2018-08-13
- Pages
- 166
- Dimensions
- 210x148x