HIS 169 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fugitive Slaves In The United States, Positive Law
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Liberty (london is 3000 miles away, how do they know what"s good for us?) Stewart takes his slave to england there he sells somerset to a man who lives in. Somerset doesn"t want to be transported to virginia so they chain him to the ship. I have the right not to be forced to travel. England has no slave laws and he cannot be forced to leave england against his free will. Not using him as a slave just using britain as a port. The laws of manservants do not allow them to be moved without their will. Positive law: the law that you can have a law rather than you can"t have a slave. We don"t have slave laws, manservants can be forced, so he can"t be forcefully ejected. If he leaves and goes somewhere else he can be moved. Slavery is a special form of property ownership.
