Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
James Somerset
Standard Name: Somerset, James
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22 June 1772: Chief Justice Lord Mansfield ruled (in the...
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22 June 1772
Chief Justice Lord Mansfield
ruled (in the case of James Somerset
) that English law did not allow a slave-owner the right to remove a slave by force from Britain.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon, 1934, 6 vols.
