Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre

• Main Author: Faubert, Michelle (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Law-History.; Africa-History.; Imperialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Legal History.; African History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

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 forci...

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.