NYC BOOK PARTY / FORUM - The Story of How Slavery Was Abolished in the British Empire
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Posted By: Carmen Colon on October 01, 2008 BRECHT FORUM -- Westside Hiway & Bank Street - Manhattan, NY fone: 212.242.4201 Friday, October 03 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY / FORUM Bury the Chains The Story of How Slavery Was Abolished in the British Empire--Myth and Fact Adam Hochschild British abolition is usually mythologized--for example in last year's feature film Amazing Grace--to give the impression that, inspired by religion, a benevolent Britain simply decided to end its central role in the Atlantic slave trade, and, later, to free more than 800,000 slaves throughout its empire. In Bury the Chains, Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, author Adam Hochschild relates how that version of history ignores the crucial role of slave rebellions in the Caribbean and the story, in Britain, of the world's first grassroots human rights campaign. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London bookstore and printing shop to pursue the daunting goal of ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Using innovative methods such as petitions, lapel buttons, and eyewitness accounts by former slaves and a repentant former slave-ship captain, the group pioneered many of the tools that activists still rely on. Within five years, more than 300,000 Britons, mostly women, were refusing to buy slave-produced sugar from the Caribbean. By 1838, a quarter century before the end of slavery in the U.S., they succeeded in bringing slavery in the British Empire to an end--a feat that would have seemed as unlikely in eighteenth-century England as banning automobiles does today. Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and other books, has written for the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and other publications. He also co-founded the magazine Mother Jones. He teaches narrative writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 BRECHT FORUM -- Westside Hiway & Bank Street - Manhattan, NY --------------------------------------- s. e. anderson is author of "The Black Holocaust for Beginners" Social Activism is not a hobby: it's a Lifestyle lasting a Lifetime http://www.blackeducator.org http://blackeducator.blogspot.com If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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