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jan 23, 1773 - james somerset

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he ws a slave whose master took him to england, where there were no solid slave laws, and he sued for his freedom and won because parlaiment had never explicitly allowed slavery. this angered the colonists because he was, according to them, US property

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jan 23, 1773
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~ 253 years ago