Re: Slavery in Britain

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:58:50 +0000

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Moderator's note: this message is in response to the Econhist digest on slavery
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The critical case in Scotland was Knight's Case (1778) with a ruling
similar to Somerset's Case (1772).

Sean Farrell Moran
History/Oakland Univ.
moran@vela.acs.oakland.edu

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