Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Boston/New York: Mariner / Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Pages toned.
viii, 468 pp. Hochschild's history of British abolitionism notes that ending slavery would have seemed as unlikely in eighteenth-century England as banning automobiles does today. Despite the "latent feeling" among intellectuals that slavery was.....


