Overview
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
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“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 its historical significance.” (John Coffey, Slavery & Abolition, November 21, 2020)
“It is not often that a researcher makes a truly new discovery of an important but unknown document relating to a well-researched topic. But Michelle Faubert, an expert in Romantic literature, has found in the British Library, a misfiled document written in 1783 by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp…The find is trulysignificant and justifies being published in this series.” (Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne, Australia)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre
Authors: Michelle Faubert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92786-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92785-5Published: 13 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92786-2Published: 02 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 166
Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Legal History, African History, Imperialism and Colonialism