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Bury the chains: the British struggle to abolish slavery

By Adam , Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade;Clarkson , Thomas;Hochschild

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
9780618104697, 0618104690, 9780618619078, 0618619070, 9780333904916, 0333904915
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2572417 bytes)
Pages
467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1760-1846;Society for Effecting the Abolition oAntislavery movements--Great Britain--History--18tThomas

Description

Introduction : twelve men in a printing shop -- 1. Many golden dreams -- 2. Atlantic wanderer -- 3. Intoxicated with liberty -- 4. King sugar -- 5. A tale of two ships -- 6. A moral steam engine -- 7. The first emancipation -- 8. "I questioned whether I should even get out of it alive" -- 9. Am I not a man and a brother? -- 10. A place beyond the seas -- 11. "Ramsay is dead -- I have killed him" -- 12. An eighteenth-century book tour -- 13. The blood-sweetened beverage -- 14. Promised land -- 15. The sweets of liberty -- 16. High noon in parliament -- 17. Bleak decade -- 18. At the foot of Vesuvius -- 19. Redcoats' graveyard -- 20. "These gilded Africans" -- 21. A side wind -- 22. Am I not a woman and a sister? -- 23. "Come, shout o'er the grave" -- Epilogue : "to feel a just indignation" -- App. Where was Equiano born?

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