Bury the Chains, Adam Hochschild
Bury the Chains, Adam Hochschild
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Bury the Chains
Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

Author: Adam Hochschild

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 13 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/24/2018

Synopsis

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 a remarkable 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.

About Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild is the author of a number of books, including Half the Way Home, The Mirror at Midnight, and The Unquiet Ghost. Three of his books, including King Leopold's Ghost, have been named Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and Library Journal. Adam has also written for the New Yorker, Harper's, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and the Nation. He teaches writing in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Simon on July 04, 2013

A very interesting and, despite its grim subject matter, a very enjoyable book. Actually, insofar as the subject matter is the abolition, first of the British trans-Atlantic slave trade, and subsequently, of slavery in the British Empire, it is not grim, but uplifting. The author paints the movement......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on August 23, 2020

Margaret Mead once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." This book is the story of those thoughtful, committed citizens, beginning with twelve men who met in a bookshop in London in 1787 to form a so......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on May 03, 2018

Like his other books, Adam Hochschild hits a home run on this one. This is an area about which I was totally ignorant but having read this well-written book, I feel like I now have a decent grasp on the battle for abolition in Britain. It is tempting to compare the battle in the West Indies to the o......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on May 04, 2020

2.5 stars. I'm fascinated by the British abolition movement of the 18th-19th centuries (I haven't read much about the American movement, which I need to correct), so as soon as I saw Hochschild's book I was eager to get my hands on it; unfortunately, I was rather disappointed -- and provoked. The in......more

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