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  2. Somerset v Stewart - Wikipedia

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    Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499 (also known as Sommersett v Steuart, Somersett's case, and the Mansfield Judgment) is a judgment of the English Court of King's Bench in 1772, relating to the right of an enslaved person on English soil not to be forcibly removed from the country and sent to Jamaica for sale.

  3. Slavery in Britain - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] In the case Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499, Lord Mansfield ruled that, as slavery was not recognised by English law, James Somerset, a slave who had been brought to England and then escaped, could not be forcibly sent to Jamaica for sale, and was set free. In Scotland, colliery (coal mine) slaves were still in use until ...

  4. 1772 in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    24 March – Royal Marriages Act 1772 requires the monarch's consent for the marriage of all members of the royal family. [2] 28 May – Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal open for traffic throughout from a junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal to the River Severn at Stourport.

  5. Bury the Chains - Wikipedia

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    Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin on January 7, 2005. [1] The book is a narrative history of the late 18th- and early 19th-century anti-slavery movement in the British Empire. [4]

  6. Abolitionism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    1787 Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood for the British anti-slavery campaign. Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.

  7. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Browne & Cooper, Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice of England, rules that "as soon as a Negro comes into England, he becomes free. One may be a villein in England, but not a slave." [53] [54] 1711–1712: Imereti: Slave trade banned by Mamia I of Imereti. 1712 Spain: Moros cortados expelled. [55] 1715: North Carolina South Carolina

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  9. James Somerset - Wikipedia

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    Despite this, it was popularly taken to confirm that slavery was outlawed in England and Wales. [3] Somerset himself appears to have adopted this broader interpretation, and wrote to at least one enslaved person encouraging them to desert their master. [4] Nothing is known of Somerset after 1772. [2]