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The Man Who Sank the Atlantic Slave Trade: Granville Sharp
How did a mild-mannered London clerk with no legal training bring down the legal pillars of Atlantic slavery? This episode follows Granville Sharp, the obsessive abolitionist behind the Somerset Case (1772) that made slavery unenforceable in England, the Zong Massacre prosecution that turned public opinion, and the founding of Sierra Leone. We explore Sharp's biblical radicalism, his alliance with Olaudah Equiano, and the 1787 Black Poor expedition. Along the way, we meet Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, the slave ship Zong's captain Luke Collingwood, and the African-American loyalists…
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