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- Somerset (/ˈsʌmərsɪt, -sɛt/ SUM-ər-sit, -⁠set), archaically Somersetshire (/ˈsʌmərsɪt.ʃɪər, -sɛt-, -ʃər/ SUM-ər-sit-sheer, -⁠set-, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial...
- 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...
- James Somerset (c. 1741 – after 1772) was an African man and the plaintiff in a pivotal court case that confirmed that slavery was illegal in England and...
- British abolitionist movement began in the late 18th century, and the 1772 Somersett case established that slavery did not exist in English law. In 1807, the...
- status was unclear until Somersett's Case in 1772, when the fugitive slave James Somersett forced a decision by the courts. Somersett had escaped and his master...
- Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England. They pla**** at Goffs Lane in Cheshunt. Somersett Football Club, a team for former pupils of Chase Boys School in nearby...
- at the beginning of 1772. Mansfield is best known for his judgment in Somersett's Case on the legality of keeping slaves in England. The English had been...
- geologic estimates put it at 5.0. The earthquakes were centered on the Somersett community in western Reno near Mogul and Verdi. Many homes in these areas...
- known as the "Mogul-Somersett earthquake sequence", occurred in or near the western Reno, Nevada, suburbs of Mogul and Somersett. The earthquake swarm...
- "New Chains" in July 2013, which was inspired by the freedom of James Somersett. In 2011, singer Frank Ocean was featured on the tracks "No Church in...