Earnshaw brought Heathcliff home to Yorkshire from Liverpool, the event did trigger the start of a general acceptance of all African Americans in the United Kingdom as free people and to live freely and given equal rights while on UK soil. While Lord Mansfield’s judgment on slavery came in 1772, a year after Mr. Yet even though readers don’t get to see such a great event play out within the chapters of Emily Brontë’s ‘ Wuthering Heights,’ its influence on the atmosphere and characters of the book is evident. The judgment of Lord Mansfield proved a very important event in history that aided the abolition of slavery globally. All these factors add up to what is regarded today as the backstory to Emily Brontë’s ‘ Wuthering Heights.’ Even so, there are other influencing historical factors in ‘ Wuthering Heights’ – such as the Brontë family tradition, as well as the established church.
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