After Somerset: The Scottish Experience
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The Scottish evidence examined here demonstrates the power of the popular understanding that, in Somerset's Case (1772), Lord Mansfield had freed the slaves, and shows how the rapid spread of this view through newspapers, magazines, and more personal communications, encouraged those held as slaves in Scotland to believe that Lord Mansfield had freed them – at least if they reached England.
Source: The Journal of Legal History
Author: John W. Cairns
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2040110230