{"id":4266,"date":"2023-04-21T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:28:52","slug":"mansfield-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/mansfield-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansfield, Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lord Mansfield<\/strong> was an English judge who decided the 1772 <em>Somerset\u00a0<\/em>case, in which he ruled that slavery was &#8220;so odious&#8221; and contrary to natural law that it could only exist where positive laws protected it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/reconsidering-the-underground-railroad-in-canada-west-barker\/\">Barker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/antislavery-politician\/\">Antislavery Politician<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Mansfield was an English judge who decided the 1772 Somerset\u00a0case, in which he ruled that slavery was &#8220;so odious&#8221; and contrary to natural law that it could only exist where positive laws protected it. ESSAYS: Barker ROLES: Antislavery Politician<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antislavery-politician"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}