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Article: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves.(Book review)
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- May 1, 2006
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Bury the Chains Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Written by Adam Hochschild Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2005, ISBN: 0618104690, Hardcover, pp. 468, $39.95 CAN
This book deals with the end of slavery in the British Empire. Several nations had large numbers of slaves, especially the eastern countries on the Atlantic Ocean after the discovery of the New World, and particularly in the Caribbean islands. The largest numbers of slave owners were the British, though the slaves they owned were nearly all outside Britain. If a date has to be set for the beginning of the end of the slave trade in the British Empire, it would be May 22, ...