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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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largely been forfeited, however, by
British legal cases (such as the 1772
Somersett case
which marked the
prohibition of
slavery in
England and Wales, a significant...
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detention by
private individuals, most
famously in
Somersett's Case (1772),
where the
black slave,
Somersett, was
ordered to be freed.
During that case, these...
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slaves were
baptised in the hope this
would lead them to be freed. The
Somersett Case of 1772
clarified that
slavery was
illegal in England. At the height...
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England in 1772, with
British Judge Lord Mansfield,
whose opinion in
Somersett's Case was
widely taken to have held that
slavery was
illegal in England...
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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...
