Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
- 13h 45m 47s
- Adam Hochschild
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2018
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, 12 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.
In this Audiobook
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1. Many Golden Dreams
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2. Atlantic Wanderer
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3. Intoxicated with Liberty
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4. King Sugar
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5. A Tale of Two Ships
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6. A Moral Steam Engine
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7. The First Emancipation
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8. “I Questioned Whether I Should Even Get Out of it Alive”
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9. Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
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10. A Place Beyond the Seas
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11. “Ramsay is Dead — I Have Killed Him”
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12. An Eighteenth-Century Book Tour
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13. The Blood-Sweetened Beverage
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14. Promised Land
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15. The Sweets of Liberty
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16. High Noon in Parliament
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17. Bleak Decade
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18. At the Foot of Vesuvius
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19. Redcoats' Graveyard
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20. “These Gilded Africans”
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21. A Side Wind
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22. Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?
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23. “Come, Shout o'er the Grave”
