Bury the chains

This was one hell of a read - I've really started to dive into non-fiction over the last couple of months (after never really reading them) and this one blew my mind in what has happened and how little I knew about it and the wider scope of slavery as it happened.
I came to this book after reading King Leopold's Ghost, wanting to go back to 'the source' for the abolition of Slavery and this was seems to have all the bases covered, at least from the British perspective - now on onto something else to keep expanding my knowledge of human history!

It’s a fascinating story, one that Hochschild summarized in an article for Mother Jones which is available on-line at www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_403.html?welcome=true — if you like that, you’ll like the rest too.

A few things that stood out to me were the sophistication of the public relations, lobbying and activist techniques both of the anti-slavery activists and of the slavery industry. In many respects, the way the abolitionist struggle was fought and fought against seemed as though it could be happening today with few changes.