 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 490 pages
...righteousness in Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good. Very unwilling had that great lawyer been to reverse the late decisions ; he suggested...abroad. The Quakers got the story. In their plain meeting - houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation got entrance. They were rich : they owned,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 482 pages
...adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d June,1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided in these...abroad. The Quakers got the story. In their plain meeting - houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation got entrance. They were rich : they owned,... | |
 | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - 1988 - 468 pages
...became sick at heart over the discoveries that they made and were led to declare the principle : " The air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe." To go back a little way in the romantic history of the emancipation of the slaves in the islands will... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...that "the claim of slavery never can be supported" by "tracing the subject to natural principles" — "established the principle that the 'air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe' " (AS, 11). If Mansfield's decision had no direct impact in the Indies — "the wrongs in the islands... | |
 | David Kelly, Gary Slapper - 1995 - 618 pages
...Diplock (extended the judiciary's power over the government); Mansfield (anti-slavery law lord, who said 'the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe'). He also extols some of the current judiciary, 'but I won't embarrass them by mentioning them', he adds.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 228 pages
...cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kmgdom: and therefore the man must be discharged." This decision...too pure for any slave to breathe," but the wrongs m the islands were not thereby touched. Public attention, however, was drawn that way, and the methods... | |
 | Raphael Walden - 2004 - 183 pages
...Somerset, was held in irons on board a ship on the Thames bound for Jamaica. Counsel's clarion plea that 'the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe' , was upheld by Lord Mansfield, so implying that slave trading was illegal and could not be enforced... | |
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This decision established the principle that the " air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe," but the wrongs in the islands were not thereby touched. Public attention, however, was drawn that way, and the methods of the stealing and the transportation... 