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Granville Sharp was born in Durham in 1735. The son of an archdeacon, and the grandson of the Archbishop of York, Sharp decided against a career in the Church of England and instead served an apprenticeship in London as a linen-draper. The work did not www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REsharp.htm
Granville Sharp was an early abolitionist and defender of slaves. He argued it was illegal to hold people as slaves in Britain, successfully freeing numerous slaves and protecting Africans in Britain from capture. Born in 1735, Sharp grew up in a large www.antislavery.org/2007/campaigners%20gsharp.htm