by Adam Hochschild

The dramatic story of a handful of men who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human-rights movement.

Adam Hochschild’s magnificent book is both carefully researched and elegantly written. In it, he takes us from the coffee houses of eighteenth-century London to the back-breaking sugar plantations of the West Indies. He reveals how in the space of a few short years, a small group of determined people moved the cause of anti-slavery to the very centre of British political life and ensured that the vicious trade in human lives was abolished.

• Paperback
• 456 pages
• ISBN: 9780330485814