Record #415 (edit record; developers only)

Date: May 14, 1772

Event:

The Mansfield Decision: Judge William Murray (Lord Mansfield) rules that there is no legal basis for slavery in England, giving great stimulus to the Abolition movement which was the movement to abolish the slave trade and slavery in the colonies.

Topics:

*Abolition  

   

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6/10/2003


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