Bury the Chains

From the author of King Leopold''s Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.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 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.A San Francisco Chronicle BestsellerA Book Sense Selection"By far the most readable and rounded account we have of British antislavery, a campaign that, as the author rightly claims, helped to