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Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

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British reformer Sharp was catapulted into anti-slavery lore for advancing the cause of James Somerset, and American slave whose case delivered a legal death blow to slavery in England. Brissot de Warville was a premier French abolitionist. The letters were penned just days before the Bastille fell, and concern the National Assembly (which launched the Revolution), Frankpledge, and the French colonies. Letter dated "6 July 1789"--discussing the Rights of Nations, topic of frankpledge and Sharp's Tract on Congregational Courts ; letter dated "9 July 1789"--brings up topics of regulations for new settlement at Sierra Leone, frankpledge, military associations of the people, strength of a nation, corn markets in France, and British distilleries.
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Correspondence
Contributors:
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793
Created Date:
1789 07
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Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. Abolition Movement
  2. Abolitionists
  3. African Americans
  4. Antislavery Movements
  5. Blacks
  6. Commerce
  7. Enslaved People
  8. Foreign Economic Relations
  9. Government
  10. Great Britain
  11. Politics And Government
  12. Sierra Leone
  13. Slave Trade
  14. Slaver
  15. Slavery
  16. To 1808

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