Did Somersett’s Case play any role in the American Revolution?

Following on from another post earlier/yesterday about whether slavery played a significant role in sparking the American Revolution, I was wondering about the following:

Given slavery was effectively declared illegal in England in 1772 under the Common Law, with the outcome of the case known as β€˜Somersett’s Case’ and similar outcomes in Scotland and elsewhere on the same basis, it would be tempting to suggest that - given the significant role of slavery in β€˜American’ society at the time - the events leading up to the Revolution a few short years later may have been at least partly driven by this case.

However, having read a number of the main β€˜revolutionary’ works of the era, by Paine et al., I’m not aware of this having been mentioned to any degree.

So: is there any literature on the relationship between Somersett’s Case and the American Revolution?

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Did the Somersett case of 1772, and the potential for abolition of slavery in the British empire, have any influence on the southern American colonies’ decision to declare independence?

From a layman’s viewpoint, it would seem that the southern colonies relationship with Britain was less competitive than the northern colonies. From a purely deductive standpoint, Liberal revolutionary principles seem to fit the nascent industrial, trading, and smallholding northern economy more than the slave estate economy of the south. I would think they depended on British markets and suffered less from anti-competitive and discriminatory trade and tax policy. Likewise, from the Declaration onwards, it is clear that slavery was the central political issue of the southern states. It seems likely it would play a role in their decision to join the rebellion. Am I way off base here?

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The Case of Somersett and the End of Slavery in England accessible-archives.com/2…
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SERIOUS: This subreddit needs to understand what a "dad joke" really means.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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Just because it's a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

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