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Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre

Autor Michelle Faubert
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 aug 2018
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. 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319927855
ISBN-10: 331992785X
Pagini: 153
Ilustrații: XVI, 166 p. 16 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. Equiano, Sharp, Mansfield, and the Zong Massacre: History and Significance.- 3. The Provenance of the BL Document.- 4. The BL Document: The Definitive Version of Sharp's Letter on the Zong to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.- 5. The Historical Significance of the BL Document.- 6. Conclusion: Revisiting the History of Abolition.

Recenzii

“For sure, the book is a useful teaching aid for introductory college-level classes or for scholars just coming to the subject matter. Scholars who have done more extensive work on Sharp and the British abolitionist movement might find the book most useful for its many nuances.” (Cassander L. Smith, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 33 (3), 2021)
“Faubert stumbled across the manuscript in the British Library (BL) while leafing through a volume of eighteenth-century pamphlets. Her book conveys the excitement of this serendipitous find and her subsequent investigation … . the book is a valuable exercise in historical detection, with informative chapters on the Zong case, Sharp’s text and its provenance, and itshistorical significance.” (John Coffey, Slavery & Abolition, November 21, 2020)

Notă biografică

Michelle Faubert is Associate Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University, UK.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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. 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.

Caracteristici

Offers new insights into the role of Granville Sharp’s involvement in the British abolition of slavery Features an appendix with a scholarly transcription and images of the letter Presents the first complete overview of the primary and secondary materials on the Zong