Abstract
The 1772 British court case Somerset v. Stewart is considered the beginning of the British movement for the abolition of slavery, a point of national pride, and justification for the empire's expansion. Using comparative literary methodologies, this paper reads the case with and through French legal precedent cited in Somerset, examining the effects and implications of legal translation.
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