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Originally Posted by Jazzy_Jeffaz
Slavery used to be legal but that did not make it right. The courts used to uphold this as well.
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No one here is denying the right to disagree with the ruling. But I'm pretty sure that the High Court of Justice, established in 1875, never upheld slavery. And its predecessor Court of King's Bench ruled in 1772, in the famous Somersett case, that there was not, and never had been, a legal basis for British slavery. Maybe you can show otherwise, but I doubt the court ever upheld slavery -- before 1772, the issue never came before it.
Undoubtedly there were other courts, notably in the Americas, that dismissed the pleas of bondsmen. Which has nothing to do with the quality of the court in question, or its rulings.