Confederate "Heritage" Month 2023, April 10: The Somerset (Mansfield) Decision of 1772 and the American Revolution

One of the arguments used to support the notion that preserving slavery was a key motivation for the American Revolution has to do with the 1772 "Somerset" decision by Britain’s highest count. It “decided only that an escaping slave [James Somerset] could not be forcibly removed from England for retributive punishment in a colony.”

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