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Bury the chains, prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire's slaves, Adam Hochschild

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Bury the chains, prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire's slaves, Adam Hochschild

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-427) and index

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bury the chains

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

56390513

Responsibility statement

Adam Hochschild

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Mariner books

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prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire's slaves

Summary

An account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. Within five years, more than 300,000 Britons were refusing to eat the chief slave-grown product, sugar; London's smart set was sporting antislavery badges created by Josiah Wedgwood; and the House of Commons had passed the first law banning the slave trade. The activists brought slavery in the British Empire to an end in the 1830s, long before it died in the United States

Table Of Contents

pt. I. World of bondage : Many golden dreams ; Atlantic wanderer ; Intoxicated with liberty ; King sugar ; A tale of two ships -- pt. II. From tinder to flame : A moral steam engine ; The first emancipation ; "I questioned whether I should even get out of it alive: ; Am I not a man and a brother? ; A place beyond the seas ; "Ramsay is dead, I have killed him" -- pt. III. "A whole nation crying with one voice" : An eighteenth-century book tour ; The blood-sweetened beverage ; Promised land ; The sweets of liberty ; High noon in Parliament -- pt. IV. War and revolution : Bleak decade ; At the foot of Vesuvius ; Redcoats' graveyard ; "These gilded Africans" -- pt. V. Bury the chains : A side wind ; Am I not a woman and a sister? ; "Come, shout o'er the grave -- Epilogue: "To feel a just indignation" -- Appendix : Where was Equiano born?

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