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Andy9o8

Should Britain give formal apology for its role in slave trade?

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Maybe, someone in Africa should be doing the apologizing, for their ancestors sold/traded their own people.

In 1807 Britain outlawed slavery. .



That was by Act of Parliament. However, the High Court's decision in James Somerset's case in 1772 was widely understood as freeing slaves in England by virtue of common law. In Scotland there was no right to own another person (although indentured servitude certainly existed as a matter of FACT, rather than LAW).



Did this apply to the tailless Manx Cats on the Isle of Man??



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