Andrew Lyall is a retired member of staff in Law at University College Dublin.
The number of cases, some unreported, is extraordinary and will be a boon to legal historians working on colonial slavery. This book augments the extant scholarship on slave status and Somerset, as it lends additional sources to further develop and understand these complex legal issues. -- Justine Keli Collins, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History * Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History *