Yorke–Talbot slavery opinion
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The Yorke–Talbot slavery opinion was a legal opinion issued by two Crown law officers in 1729 relating to the legality of slavery under English law.
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke by William Hoare of Bath
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol by John Vanderbank
Somerset v Stewart
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Somerset v Stewart 98 ER 499 is a judgment of the English Court of King's Bench, relating to the right of a slave on English soil not to be forcibly removed from the country and sent to Jamaica for sa
Yorke–Talbot slavery opinion
…v Lisle (1749) Amb 75, 27 ER 47. However, in 1772, Lord Mansfield held that no person could be forcibly removed from England as a slave in England in Somersett's case on application for habeas corpus made on behalf of the escaped slave, James Somersett. Yet mindful of Hardwicke's holding in Pearne v Lisle that English…
Portrait of William Murray by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, 1737. As Lord Mansfield he sat in judgement on the case
Dido Elizabeth Belle with her cousin Elizabeth Murray, the great-nieces of Lord Mansfield, both were brought up in Kenwood House. Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, 1778