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Sto caricando le informazioni... Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (originale 2005; edizione 2006)di Adam Hochschild (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaBury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves di Adam Hochschild (Author) (2005)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The story of the abolition movement in England, including its invention/first successful use of several common propaganda techniques (including political logos), and how it went from attacking the slave trade to attacking all slavery. Reminding me of the Cold War uses of the civil rights movement, abolition’s political successes came when they appeared geopolitically at least ok (when abolishing the trade/slavery would hurt the French or at least not disadvantage the British a lot). And success required compensating enslavers and not the enslaved. But no civil war was required—if only because the British learned both from the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, in which they disastrously intervened. I will say this is more like a 3.5; it was the best of the Adam Hochschild books I've read (and I don't really intend to read any more of them,) I think in no small part because he was fairly constrained and didn't have to do a lot of historical imagination work. It doesn't say anything new, nor does he really claim to--in his bibliography he acknowledges that most of it is basically a restating of David Brion Davis's work, and that's fine! By focusing on the organizing in Britain for the most part, he's able to acknowledge the lack of humanity that most British felt for actual enslaved people, while not doing too much interrogating into his own love of British 'democracy' or Euro-centric forms of government (like he did King Leopold's Ghost.) It's really a sweet spot for him; there are enough characters for him to kind of play with, and he can be focused and have fewer weird progressive narrative statements. I would actually feel somewhat comfortable purchasing this one for a relative and not following it up immediately with other recommendations. It's accessible and didn't make me feel actively uncomfortable! Is it the best book I've ever read on the subject? No, but it doesn't have to be I guess. If you're looking for an accessible book on the abolition of the British slave trade and slavery in British colonies, this is a decent one (I say as a person whose focus is the US settler state; ymmv if you know more about this than me.) A solid, but occasionally padded, history of the UK's abolition of the slave trade and eventually slavery, covering roughly 1790-1840. One main thesis is that the abolitionists' methods, including pamphlets, petitions, boycotts, branding, etc., anticipated many of the elements of more modern social justice movements. Some quick points: How many slaves there were. Emphasized the abolitionist roles of Quakers, and of women. Main efforts were to end slave trading, not slavery. After abolition, momentum switched, with the powerful joining the movement in order to deny their rivals a competitive advantage. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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 empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. Within five years, more than 300,000 Britons were refusing to eat the chief slave-grown product, sugar; London's smart set was sporting antislavery badges created by Josiah Wedgwood; and the House of Commons had passed the first law banning the slave trade. The activists brought slavery in the British Empire to an end in the 1830s, long before it died in the United States. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I have to say that I am deeply touched by it. Hochschild has done a tremendous amount of research and, although I am not particularly enthused by his writing, I was hooked by the narrative. It is so inspiring to feel that individuals do have the power to change the world.
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