Chapter 11 and Select Pages

In chapter 11 of Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild was all about a new bill that was trying to get passed in Britain about abolishing slavery. The biggest part that would help the abolitionists was when Equiano sent Clarkson a detailed picture of a slave ship. It had a front, side and depth view of the ship. This was then blew up by Clarkson on posters to get the citizens in it. It showed how little space each slave passenger had and how they lived within the ship. Along with the diagram, there was a great slave song that was also shown. Another big part of the attempt to pass the bill was the amount of people who helped Clarkson's case and the power whose those names bring, John Newton, Equiano, James Steven and Revered James Ramsey who just passed away from a massive gastric hemorrhage.

To jump ahead in the chapter, it would bring us to France. Under new leadership from Lafayette, he talked about how his big issue he will deal with is the abolishment of Slaves. Now with rumors of democracy  approaching, the chance of slavery in France is diminishing. There was a big revolt in Paris when Clarkson went to collect witnesses for the case in britain. This revolt was a crowd that stormed an old run down prison that was a massive symbol of tyranny in France. 

In the select pages 167-174, it talked about how Equiano wrote a book. It was an auto-biography and talked about when he was on a slave ship. this book was hit during this time. It wasn't only a hit because of how much it had an effect on people and how much money it made, it showed that slaves and African Americans can be literate. Europeans believed that all Africans were illiterate. Equiano proved everyone wrong. This book opened the eyes of behind the scenes of the slave trade and what happened through the eyes of a slave.

In the second set of select pages 192-198, these few pages were packed with information about how woman now were stepping in and leading the sugar boycott. They wouldn't use sugar in their tea or anything that has sugar in it for that matter. They wanted to squeeze the country for money until they stop slavery. Sugar was/is a big factor in life of Britain. This boycott had a big effect on the abolishment movement. Also during this time Clarkson wrote another book about the problems slaves had and what happened during the slave trade. This would be more literature to help stop slavery in Britain.