Adam Hochschild

Bury The Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery

By Adam Hochschild - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

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Nonfiction

In 1787 a small group of men gathered in a London printing shop to discuss how they might be instrumental in abolishing slavery. Using ...Read Review

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

By Adam Hochschild - Published 1999 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Nonfiction

In 1897 or 1898, Edmund Dane Morel, a British shipping company agent working in Antwerp, noticed discrepancies in the cargoes of his company’s ships. ...Read Review