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　　From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost

comes the taut, gripping account of the world's first grass-roots

human rights movementthe fight to free the British Empire's slaves.

In early 1787, twelve mena printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and

others united by their hatred of slaverycame together in a London

printing shop and, combining fiery devotion with cool practicality,

began one of the most brilliantly organized campaigns of all time.

Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders

pioneered a variety of techniques used by citizens" movements ever

since, from consumer boycotts to posters and lapel buttons to

celebrity endorsements. A deft account of the precipitous rise of

this popular crusade and its fierce, powerful enemies, Bury the

Chains delivers all the drama, sweep, and surprise of Hochschild's

previous histories.

Introduction: Twelve Men in a Printing Shop 1 PART I: WORLD OF

BONDAGE 1. Many Golden Dreams 11 2. Atlantic Wanderer 30 3.

Intoxicated with Liberty 41 4. King Sugar 54 5. A Tale of Two Ships

69 PART II: FROM TINDER TO FLAME 6. A Moral Steam Engine 85 7. The

First Emancipation 98 8. "I Questioned Whether I Should Even Get

Out of It Alive" 106 9. Am I Not a Man and a Brother? 122 10. A

Place Beyond the Seas 143 11. "Ramsay Is DeadI Have Killed Him" 152

PART III: "A WHOLE NATION CRYING WITH ONE VOICE" 12. An

Eighteenth-Century Book Tour 167 13. The Blood-Sweetened Beverage

181 14. Promised Land 199 15. The Sweets of Liberty 213 16. High

Noon in Parliament 226 PART IV: WAR AND REVOLUTION 17. Bleak Decade

241 18. At the Foot of Vesuvius 256 19. Redcoats" Graveyard 280 20.

"These Gilded Africans" 288 PART V: BURY THE CHAINS 21. A Side Wind

299 22. Am I Not a Woman and a Sister? 309 23. "Come, Shout o'er

the Grave" 333 Epilogue: "To Feel a Just Indignation" 355 Appendix:

Where was Equiano Born? 369 Source Notes 373 Bibliography 409

Acknowledgments 428 Index 432

　　Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. His first

book, HALF THE WAY HOME: A MEMOIR OF FATHER AND SON, was published

in 1986. It was followed by THE MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT: A SOUTH AFRICAN

JOURNEY (1990) and THE UNQUIET GHOST: RUSSIANS REMEMBER STALIN

(1994). FINDING THE TRAPDOOR: ESSAYS, PORTRAITS, TRAVELS won the

1998 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay.

Hochschild's books have been translated into five languages and

have won prizes from the Overseas Press Club of America, the World

Affairs Council, the Eugene V. Debs Foundation, and the Society of

American Travel Writers. 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. KING LEOPOLD'S

GHOST was also awarded the 1998 California Book Awards gold medal

for nonfiction. Hochschild has also written for THE NEW YORKER,

HARPER'S MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, THE NEW YORK TIMES

MAGAZINE, MOTHER JONES.

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From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of the world's first grass-roots human rights movementthe fight to free the British Empire's slaves. In early 1787, twelve mena printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slaverycame together in a London printing shop and, combining fiery devotion with cool practicality, began one of the most brilliantly organized campaigns of all time. Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders pioneered a variety of techniques used by citizens" movements ever since, from consumer boycotts to posters and lapel buttons to celebrity endorsements. A deft account of the precipitous rise of this popular crusade and its fierce, powerful enemies, Bury the Chains delivers all the drama, sweep, and surprise of Hochschild's previous histories.