Granville sharp biography

Granville Sharp Esquire, engraved by Charles Turner 1806  ©Sharp was a leading British abolitionist and instigator of the first settlement of freed African slaves in Sierra Leone.

Granville Sharp was born on 10 November 1735 in Durham. He was one of eight children and his father was a clergyman. At 15, Sharp was apprenticed to a London linen draper and then went to work as a civil servant.

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He had a variety of interests, including theology, for which he taught himself Greek and Latin, and music. He and his brothers and sisters often gave concerts together.

His interest in slavery began in 1765 after he befriended Jonathan Strong, a slave who had been badly beaten by his master.

When Strong's former owner attempted to sell him back into slavery in the Caribbean, Sharp took a successful case to the lord mayor and Strong was freed. Sharp then devoted his time to forcing a definitive legal ruling on the question of whether a slave could be compelle