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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Incident of the Nineteenth Century--Romantic Elopement on an ox sled. (search)
ht to settle the question. The anti-slavery proclivities of. Lord Brougham place his opinions, when they happen to be pro-slavery, above all suspicion. There can be no doubt that he would gladly have pronounced in favor of Lord Mansfield's decision had he found it possible to do so. His opinion seems to be that slavery is recognized by the common law, and that it can only be destroyed by statute — never by a change of locality within the political limits of the country. It strikes us, indeed, that, if Lord Mansfield's opinion had been correct, slavery in Jamaica would have ceased the moment it fell under the dominion of Great Britain. From that moment it became as much a part of Great Britain, so far as the common law is concerned, as Kent or Sussex. If in Kent or Sussex the common law set a negro free, why should it not have set him free in Jamaica? --Yet, we find that it did not, but that on the contrary slavery continued in Jamaica until it was abolished by act of Parliament.