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Fall, 2007
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REVIEWS

SECTION 3
RACE, SLAVERY AND SOCIAL POLICY

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. By Adam Hochschild (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xi plus 468pp.).
With Bury the Chains, Adam Hochschild presents the first narrative history of the British antislavery movement in more than a generation. Where others have focused on particular moments, individuals, or themes, Hochschild tells the whole story, from beginning to end, from the institution of organized abolitionism in 1787 through the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1833. The account turns on crisp and compelling portraits of the agitators, from the familiar to the comparatively obscure. The retired slave ship captain Alexander Falconbridge, the Quaker activist Elizabeth Heyrick, and the enslaved Jamaica preacher Samuel Sharpe, receive their due alongside John Newton, Granville Sharp, Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, and James Stephen. Yet, Bury the Chains is less a celebration of great men and women than an appreciation of the great things that idealistic but flawed men and women tried to do. For those who want to know the story, or want to teach it, this book will stand as the most complete and most accessible account for some time to come. . . .
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