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The article offers a look on the Somerset\u27s Case that served as a milestone in the campaign to abolish slavery in Great Britain. The case become famous in the Anglo-American law of slavery, with its proceedings widely circulated in periodicals. However, historians have argued about what the ruling was and its effects. It has been known in English slavery law that courts prior to the case generally agreed that English law governed status, but also limited slavery, for slaves who came to England
I write this after re-reading Steven M Wise\u27s Though the Heavens May Fall. My argument, if convin...
This legal history article presents the empirical finding that the risk of family separation at slav...
Nova Scotia was the only colony in the transatlantic world to possess no statute laws or slave codes...
The article offers a look on the Somerset\u27s Case that served as a milestone in the campaign to ab...
On Monday 22 June 1772, the English jurist William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, delivered his oral...
Canonical cases like Somerset v. Stewart resonate beyond their particular historical context because...
Lord Mansfield\u27s influence on slavery in America began on June 22, 1772, when he decided the case...
This essay explores what this environmental conceit meant as a legal fact to the legal professionals...
This Species of Property examines the development of the law and practice of slavery in the 17th and...
Only a few decades ago, it was possible to write accounts of the culture or economy of the antebellu...
UID/ELT/04097/2013This article investigates the role of Lord Holland in the abolition of the Slave T...
This thesis examines the Somerset Case of 1772 and considers it within its immediate social, politic...
With his 1772 decree in Somerset v. Steuart that slavery was ‘so odious that nothing can be suffered...
This paper considers the issues of villeinage and slavery in England and the British colonies; the d...
Some authorities from the antebellum period to the present have located the source of the American l...
I write this after re-reading Steven M Wise\u27s Though the Heavens May Fall. My argument, if convin...
This legal history article presents the empirical finding that the risk of family separation at slav...
Nova Scotia was the only colony in the transatlantic world to possess no statute laws or slave codes...
The article offers a look on the Somerset\u27s Case that served as a milestone in the campaign to ab...
On Monday 22 June 1772, the English jurist William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, delivered his oral...
Canonical cases like Somerset v. Stewart resonate beyond their particular historical context because...
Lord Mansfield\u27s influence on slavery in America began on June 22, 1772, when he decided the case...
This essay explores what this environmental conceit meant as a legal fact to the legal professionals...
This Species of Property examines the development of the law and practice of slavery in the 17th and...
Only a few decades ago, it was possible to write accounts of the culture or economy of the antebellu...
UID/ELT/04097/2013This article investigates the role of Lord Holland in the abolition of the Slave T...
This thesis examines the Somerset Case of 1772 and considers it within its immediate social, politic...
With his 1772 decree in Somerset v. Steuart that slavery was ‘so odious that nothing can be suffered...
This paper considers the issues of villeinage and slavery in England and the British colonies; the d...
Some authorities from the antebellum period to the present have located the source of the American l...
I write this after re-reading Steven M Wise\u27s Though the Heavens May Fall. My argument, if convin...
This legal history article presents the empirical finding that the risk of family separation at slav...
Nova Scotia was the only colony in the transatlantic world to possess no statute laws or slave codes...
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