Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618619078)

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

Author: Adam Hochschild
ISBN-10: 0618619070
ISBN-13: 9780618619078
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2005
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d
Award: Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Runner-Up

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/16/2006 pg. 24