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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.
An abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act of 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that the institution of slavery was to be prohibited in directly administered, overseas, British territories.
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.
The results of these inquiries contributed greatly to the abolition of slavery with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. [23] [24] Up until then, sugar planters from rich British islands such as the Colony of Jamaica and Barbados were able to buy rotten and pocket boroughs, and they were able to form a body of resistance to moves to abolish slavery ...
The United Kingdom (then including Ireland) and the United States outlawed the international slave trade in 1807, after which Britain led efforts to block slave ships. Britain abolished slavery throughout its empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (with the notable exception of India), the French colonies re-abolished it in 1848 and the U.S ...
Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was a British scholar, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Born in Durham , he initially worked as a civil servant in the Board of Ordnance .
England rugby’s official anthem, which holds very different connotations either side of the Atlantic, continues to be sung by fans at Twickenham and abroad
James Somersett was a slave owned by Charles Stewart, an American customs officer who sailed to Britain for business, landing on 10 November 1769. [65] A few days later Somersett attempted to escape. He was recaptured in November and imprisoned on the ship Ann and Mary , owned by Captain John Knowles and bound for the British colony of Jamaica .