Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 - 468 Seiten
Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history--the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
A National Book Award Finalist
A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller

In early 1787, twelve men--a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery--came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grassroots movement, battling for the rights of people on another continent. Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders pioneered a variety of techniques that have been adopted by citizens' movements ever since, from consumer boycotts to wall posters and lapel buttons to celebrity endorsements. A deft chronicle of this groundbreaking antislavery crusade and its powerful enemies, Bury the Chains gives a little-celebrated human rights watershed its due at last.

"Bury the Chains is by far the most readable and rounded account we have of British antislavery, a campaign that...helped to change the world and can be seen as a prototype of the modern social justice movement"--Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Many Golden Dreams
11
Atlantic Wanderer
30
Intoxicated with Liberty
41
King Sugar
54
A Tale of Two Ships
69
FROM TINDER TO FLAME
83
A Moral Steam Engine
85
The First Emancipation
98
WAR AND REVOLUTION
239
Bleak Decade
241
At the Foot of Vesuvius
256
Redcoats Graveyard
280
These Gilded Africans
288
BURY THE CHAINS
297
A Side Wind
299
Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?
309

I Questioned Whether I Should Even Get Out of It Alive
106
Am I not a Man and a Brother?
122
A Place Beyond the Seas
143
Ramsay Is DeadI Have Killed Him
152
A WHOLE NATION CRYING WITH ONE VOICE
165
An EighteenthCentury Book Tour
167
The BloodSweetened Beverage
181
Promised Land
199
The Sweets of Liberty
213
High Noon in Parliament
226
Come Shout oer the Grave
333
Epilogue
355
To Feel a Just indignation
357
Where was Equiano Born?
369
Source Notes
373
Bibliography
409
Acknowledgments
428
Index
432
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ADAM HOCHSCHILD is the author of eleven books. King Leopold's Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as was To End All Wars. His Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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