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Bury the Chains

Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

by Derek Perkins, Adam Hochschild, José Luis Gil Aristu

2004 468 pages eng

An account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest em…

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