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BNL.772.040
10 Sep 1772:11 (3497 Supplement)
London, June 27. . . On Monday near 200 Blacks, with their
ladies, had an entertainment at a public house in
Westminster, to celebrate the triumph which their brother
Somerset had obtained over Mr. Stewart his master. Lord
Mansfield's health was echoed round the room, and the
evening was concluded with a ball. The tickets for
admittance to this black assembly were five shillings each.
The late decision with regard to Somerset the Negro, a
correspondent assures us, will occasion a greater ferment in
America (particularly in the islands) than the Stamp Act
itself; for the slaves constituting the great value of (West
India) property (especially) and appeals lying from America
in all cases of a civil process to the mother-country, every
petty fogger will have his neighbour entirely at his mercy,
and by alying to the King's Bench at Westminster, leave the
subject at Jamaica, or Barbados wholly without a hand to
cultivate his plantations.
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