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Granville Sharp, and the Freedom of Slaves in England.

Granville Sharp, and the Freedom of Slaves in England.

Publication details: Oxford Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press,1928,

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A biographical account of this key figure of the eighteenth-century British antislavery movement. The author, Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles (1884-1956), was himself descended from the prominent family of Barbadian plantation owners and slave holders.

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FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait of Sharp by Joshua Reynolds, 3 further monochrome plates, all tissue-guarded, a few light spots, pp. viii, 151, 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the latter with a few spots, edges untrimmed and largely uncut, dustjacket with a striking design by 'Hawes', a couple of light handling marks, the backstrip panel sunned and chipped at head, a little chipping at corners, ownership inscription to front pastedown, very good

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