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And, yah, there were slaves in Britain pre anti slavery.
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Somerset v Stewart decision in 1772 - a hundred years before the US abolished slavery:

[i]The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged.[/i]

Slavery had never been authorised by statute in England and Wales, and Lord Mansfield's decision found it also unsupported in common law....[/quote]

Doesn't mean there were no slaves in Britain during that time. There were slaves serving as cooks, maids, etc in cities such as Bristol and Liverpool. [/quote]

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