(Source: Palgrave Macmillan)
Next week,
Palgrave Macmillan will publish a new book on hitherto unexplored aspects of Granville
Sharp’s role in the landmark Zong Case.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michelle Faubert
is Associate Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Manitoba,
Canada, and Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University, UK.
More information
here
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