Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre
This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the zLords Commissioners of the Admiralty.y In the letter, Sharp demands that the Admiralty bring murder charges against the crew of the Zong for forcing 132 ens...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
2018.
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| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38013009*spi |
| Sumario: | This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the zLords Commissioners of the Admiralty.y 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. Uncovered by Michelle Faubert at the British Library in 2015, the letter is reproduced here, accompanied by her examination of its provenance and significance for the history of slavery and abolition. As Faubert argues, the British Library manuscript is the only fair copy of Sharp's letter, and extraordinary evidence of Sharp's role in the abolition of slavery. |
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| Descripción Física: | XVI, 166 p. 16 il. col |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783319927862 |
