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Granville Sharp, English activist and scholar, co-founded the Sierra Leone Company (died 1813)
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Granville Sharp
English scholar, philanthropist and abolitionist (1735–1813)
Granville Sharp was an English scholar, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Born in Durham, he initially worked as a civil servant in the Board of Ordnance. His involvement in abolitionism began in 1767 when he…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sierra Leone Company
Corporate body involved in founding the second British colony in Africa
The Sierra Leone Company was the corporate body involved in founding the second British colony in Africa on 11 March 1792 through the resettlement of Black Loyalists who had initially been settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. The company came about…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)