Eighteenth-century Britain was the world’s leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared and fortunes were made, but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of the men who sought to end slavery and brought the issue to the heart of British political life.
Carefully researched and elegantly written, star writer Adam Hochschild takes us from coffee houses of eighteenth-century London to the back-breaking sugar plantations of the West Indies to paint a vivid and moving picture of the state of slavery and its eventual end.