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To: FJB who wrote (185948)	2/6/2020 9:47:20 PM
From: bruiser98	Respond to of 456231

USA slaveholders saw the writing on the wall with Somerset vs Stewart decision in 1772. en.wikipedia.org <<<<Slavery had never been authorized by statute in England and Wales, and Lord Mansfield's decision found it also unsupported in common law. Lord Mansfield narrowly limited his judgment to the issue of whether a person, regardless of being a slave, could be removed from England against his will, and said he could not. The decision was that property rights in chattel slaves were unsupported by common law. Some historians believe the case contributed to increasing colonial support for separatism in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America, by parties on both sides of the slavery question who wanted to establish independent government and law. [3] The southern colonies wanted to protect slavery and expanded their territory dramatically in the decades after independence was won. [4] [5]>>> A hard read on this: Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution amazon.com