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Bury the Chains

Bury the Chains

Hochschild, Adam

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World HistoryBritish History

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0618619070
ISBN13: 9780618619078
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Dec 1 2005
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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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