At this point Sharp could have ended his legal studies and returned to his flute and his monotonous job at the Ordnance Office. But he did not. In 1769, he published his book, A Representation 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. Arranged across four parts it weaved together case law with notions of natural law and Sharp’s deeply held Christian morality.
