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The conclusion confirms the historical significance of the newly discovered Sharp manuscript at the British Library, arguing that it reminds us of Sharp’s importance for the abolition movement and provides vital primary textual evidence of the Zong episode.
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Prince Hoare , Memoirs of Granville Sharp , Esq. Composed from His Own Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Documents in the Possession of His Family Authentic Documents in the Possession of His Family and of the African Institution (London: Henry Colburn, 1820), 236, Google eBooks, accessed June 25, 2015–August 30, 2017, https://books.google.ca/books?id=PrUEAAAAIAAJ. The source text lacks closing quotation marks.
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Granville Sharp, An Appendix to the Representation: (Printed in the Year 1769) 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 (London: Benjamin White, and Robert Horsefield [sic], 1772), 19–20.
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Quoted in Robert Hodgson , Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus , Late Bishop of London: With His Life (London: T. Cadell, 1823), 218, Google eBooks, accessed July 14, 2015, https://books.google.ca/books?id=1L4OAAAAIAAJ.
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James Walvin , The Zong: A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011), 207.
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Journal of Legal History 28, no. 3 (2007).
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Jane Webster , “The Zong in the Context of the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade,” Journal of Legal History 28, no. 3 (2007): 285–98, 296.
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David Brion Davis , The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 200.
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Faubert, M. (2018). Conclusion: Revisiting the History of Abolition. In: Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92786-2_6
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