Author:Granville Sharp

Granville Sharp
(1735–1813)

Granville Sharp

Works

• A representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of tolerating slavery, or of admitting the least claim of private property in the persons of men, in England]], (1769) (external scan)
• Extract from A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery, Or Admitting the Least Claim of Private Property in the Persons of Men in England, (1769) (external scan)
• A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a Share in the Legislature (1775) (transcription project)
• The just limitation of slavery in the laws of God : compared with the unbounded claims of the African traders and British American slaveholders. (1776) (external scan)
• The law of retribution (1776) (external scan)
• The law of passive obedience (1776) (external scan)
• The law of liberty (1776) (external scan)
• An Essay on Slavery, proving from Scripture its Inconsistency with Humanity and Religion, (1776)
• A tract on the law of nature: and principles of action in man (1777) (external scan)
• An address to the people of England: being the protest of a private person against every suspension of law that is liable to injure or endanger personal security (1778) (external scan)
• Letter from Granville Sharp, of London to the Maryland Society for Promoting the abolition of slavery. (1793) (external scan)
• The Gilbert Prize Essay on the adaptation of recent discoveries and inventions in science and art. (1854) (external scan)

Letters

• Granville Sharp letter to Benjamin Franklin (1778)

Works about Sharp

• "Sharp, Granville," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• A memoir of Granville Sharp, by Charles Stuart. New York: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836.