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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Self-educated in languages and the law, the author Granville Sharp
(1735 1813) was a leading anti-slavery campaigner. Though many of
his associates in the abolitionist movement were dissenters or
freethinkers, he was an Anglican very much concerned with the fate
of the church in America after the war of independence. His family
consigned his archives to the painter, playwright and author Prince
Hoare (1755 1834), who published this biography in 1820. Sharp is
less well remembered than other British abolitionists such as
Clarkson and Wilberforce, but it was his work which, in 1772,
brought the landmark case of James Somerset before Lord Mansfield,
who upheld Sharp's legal arguments: as a result, it was henceforth
understood that any slave reaching the shores of England became
free. Sharp's continuing work for abolition, and his many other
charitable and scholarly activities, are detailed in this
fascinating work, drawn directly from his own writings."
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