Historische Organisatie

King’s Bench

← Terug naar het dashboard
International history trans-atlantic slavery 📍 Wereldwijd

King’s Bench

Details

Tijdlijn van de Organisatie

Somerset judgment limits removal of enslaved people from England

📅 22 Juni 1772

In Somerset’s Case, Lord Mansfield ruled that James Somerset could not be forcibly removed from England and sold abroad under the claim advanced by his enslaver. The judgment did not abolish slavery...