How Did Granville Sharp Die?
When Sharp Heard That the Act of Abolition Had at Last Been Passed by Both Houses of Parliament and Given Royal Assent on 25 March 1807, He Fell to His Knees...
When Sharp heard that the Act of Abolition had at last been passed by both Houses of Parliament and given Royal Assent on 25 March 1807, he fell to his knees and offered a prayer of thanksgiving. ... Sharp, however, did not see the final abolition as he died on 6 July 1813.
When did Granville Sharp die?
21, New Style], 1735, Durham, Durham, Eng. —died July 6, 1813, Fulham, London), English scholar and philanthropist, noted as an advocate of the abolition of slavery. Granville was apprenticed to a London draper, but in 1758 he entered the government ordnance department.
What did Granville Sharp do to help end slavery?
In the mid-1780s, Sharp became a supporter of the Sierra Leone resettlement project, which encouraged former slaves, first from Britain and then from Canada, to settle in west Africa. In 1787, Sharp and his friend Thomas Clarkson were instrumental in forming the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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