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

Author: Adam Hochschild Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618619078 0618619070

From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes 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. 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 grass-roots 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. Similar books: The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild The Empire Of Necessity by Greg Grandin Complicity by Anne Farrow To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart Roll, Jordan, Roll by Eugene D. Genovese Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress by Jan Morris Beyond the River by Ann Hagedorn The Victorians by A. N. Wilson Our Tempestuous Day by Carolly Erickson Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll