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Somerset judgment limits removal of enslaved people from England

📅 22 Yüni 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...