Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 - 468 pages 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 |
Contents
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 |
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