Decolonizing Minds, Including My Own, About U.S. Capitalist State Settler Colonialism – The Greanville Post greanvillepost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greanvillepost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On this day: Granville Sharp, slave trade abolitionist, died christian.org.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from christian.org.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As Lord Chief Justice, Mansfield ruled on significant slavery cases including the Somerset case of an escaped slave due to be sent back to Jamaica, and the Zong massacre in which the crew, faced with insufficient drinking water, threw their human cargo overboard then tried to collect the insurance. I see Mansfield as a conflicted liberal gentleman who makes a narrow judgement in the James Somerset case that did not free every former slave in England. The Zong case is not a moral case about people being murdered but an insurance case. When he ruled that the owners couldn t get the insurance, he calls the slave trade odious and says only law can change it, but he doesn t attempt to change that law.
Gerald Horne's counter-revolution against 1776 - World Socialist Web Site wsws.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsws.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY : Adrien d'Epinay led the rebellion against His Majesty's government (1832) lemauricien.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lemauricien.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What pro-Trump insurrectionists share — and don't — with the American Revolution washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Legal Status of Slaves The legal position of enslaved Africans in Britain before the abolition of slavery was ambiguous, and further muddied and confused by senior lawyers. Revolutionary uprisings demanding natural justice rocked America in 1776 and France in 1789, but the principles of political and social freedom had limited application, particularly in the case of slaves. Slaves as Property Plantation owners in the Americas were dependent upon slaves to ensure high profitability. In Britain, 18th-century laws were designed to support a trade in slaves that was sanctioned by the king and parliament. A decision by the Solicitor General