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Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human
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Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery Hardcover - 2005

by Wise, Steven M

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Da Capo Press, 2005-01-02. Hardcover. New. 9x5x1. [Stated first printing] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. <br><br> "Perhaps no trial changed the course of history as much as one that took place in London in 1772: the case of James Somerset, a black man rescued from a ship bound for the West Indies slave markets. At this landmark trial, two encompassing worldviews clashed in an event of passionate drama and far-reaching significance. Now noted [the author] recreates each moment of the case that slave owners contended would do nothing less than bring the economy of the British Empire to a crashing halt. In a narrative of Somerset's trial - and the slave trials that led up to it, he sets the stage for the extraordinary decision by the notoriously conservative judge, Lord Mansfield. That decision would set in motion the abolition of slavery in both England and the United States." - De Capo Press
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  • Title Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery
  • Author Wise, Steven M
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-01-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2110260016
  • ISBN 9780738206950 / 0738206954
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.24 x 1.04 in (23.77 x 15.85 x 2.64 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sommersett, James - Trials, litigation, etc, Slavery - Law and legislation - England -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004025346
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.420

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THE STORY HAD BEGUN twenty-three years before.

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Steven M. Wise, J.D., has practiced animal law for over twenty years and has taught at the Harvard, Vermont, and John Marshall law schools. He is President of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, which he founded in 1995. The author of Rattling the Cage, praised by Cass Sunstein as "an impassioned, fascinating, and in many ways startling book" ( New York Times Book Review ), and Drawing the Line, which Nature called "provocative and disturbing," he has been profiled nationally by such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time magazine.

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