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Anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp had a court order preventing Thomas Lewis being shipped off to slavery, but he had to find him first.
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James, brother of John the Evangelist, was executed for his faith by a close friend of the Emperor Caligula.
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After James Somerset was loaded onto a British slave-ship bound for Jamaica, Granville Sharp and other committed Christians turned to the courts for justice.
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A proud British king, taken to Rome as a trophy of Empire, refused to plead for his life.
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For a perennial ‘runner-up’, Eratosthenes had a peculiar knack of being first.
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The Jay Treaty can be seen as the start of the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and America.