Document Type
Article
Abstract
The article offers a look on the Somerset's Case that served as a milestone in the campaign to abolish slavery in Great Britain. The case become famous in the Anglo-American law of slavery, with its proceedings widely circulated in periodicals. However, historians have argued about what the ruling was and its effects. It has been known in English slavery law that courts prior to the case generally agreed that English law governed status, but also limited slavery, for slaves who came to England.
Recommended Citation
George Van Cleve,
Somerset’s Case and Its Antecedents in Imperial Perspective, 24 LAW & HIST. REV. 601
(2006).
https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/567
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