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EG.772.041
1-8 Sep 1772:212 (5/215)
London, May 30. On Monday near 200 blacks, with their
ladies, had an entertainment at a public house in
Westminster, to celebrate the triumph which their brother
Somerset had obtained over Mr. Stewart his master. Lord
Mansfield's health was echoed round the room, and the
evening was concluded with a ball. The tickets for
admittance to this black assembly were five shillings each.
[Somerset had recently won a case against his master in
which he had been forcibly put on a vessel to be sold as a
slave overseas for insubordination.]
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