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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre
  name:
    name part: Faubert, Michelle.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 166 p. 16 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Michelle Faubert.
  subject:
    topic: Great Britain-History
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-18th century
  subject:
    topic: Law-History
  subject:
    topic: Africa-History
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: History of Britain and Ireland
  subject:
    topic: Eighteenth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: Legal History
  subject:
    topic: African History
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism and Colonialism
  classification: DA1-995
  classification: 941
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319927862
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92786-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 180802
    record change date: 20191028201940.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-92786-2