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From the author of the prizewinning King Leopolds Ghost comes a taut thrilling account of the first grassroots human rights campaign which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the worldIn 1787 twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal ending slavery in the largest empire on earth Along the way they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins This talented group combined a hatred of injustice with uncanny skill in promoting their cause Within five years more than 300000 Britons were refusing to eat the chief slavegrown product sugar Londons smart set was sporting antislavery badges created by Josiah Wedgwood and the House of Commons had passed the first law banning the slave tradeHowever the House of Lords where slavery backers were more powerful voted down the bill But the crusade refused to die fueled by remarkable figures like Olaudah Equiano a brilliant exslave who enthralled audiences throughout the British Isles John Newton the former slave ship captain who wrote Amazing Grace Granville Sharp an eccentric musician and selftaught lawyer and Thomas Clarkson a fiery organizer who repeatedly crisscrossed Britain on horseback devoting his life to the cause He and his fellow activists brought slavery in the British Empire to an end in the 1830s long before it died in the United States The only survivor of the printing shop meeting half a century earlier Clarkson lived to see the day when a slave whip and chains were formally buried in a Jamaican churchyardLike Hochschilds classic King Leopolds Ghost Bury the Chains abounds in atmosphere high drama and nuanced portraits of unsung heroes and colorful villains Again Hochschild gives a littlecelebrated historical watershed its due at last
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Eighteenthcentury Britain was the worlds leading centre for the slave trade Profits soared and fortunes were made but in 1788 things began to change Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of the men who sought to end slavery and brought the issue to the heart of British political life Hochschilds marvellous book is a timely reminder of what a small group of determined people with right on their side can achieve Carefully researched and elegantly written with a pacy narrative that ranges from the coffee houses of London to the backbreaking sugar plantations of the West Indies it charts the unlikely success of the first international human rights movement Saul David Literary Review Hochschild is such a gifted researcher and storyteller that he never fails to hold the readers attentionFor all its terrible theme Hochschilds book is not in the least depressing because it is suffused with admiration for the courage and enlightenment of the men and women who crusaded against this evil and finally prevailed Max Hastings Sunday Telegraph Thoughtprovoking absorbing and wellwritten Brendan Simms Sunday Times Stirring and unforgettable Economist
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Eighteenthcentury Britain was the worlds leading exponent of the slave trade profits soared and among the beneficiaries were the Church of England and Londons Tate Gallery Yet in the space of a few short years beginning in 1788 a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of antislavery to the very centre of British political life from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar At their head was Thomas Clarkson a divinity student who travelled 35000 miles on horseback documenting abuses talking to supporters and evading attempts on his life With Granville Sharp and James Phillips he founded the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and gave platforms to freed slaves such as Olaudah Equiano who had experienced the horrors in full Clarksons movement resembled nothing England had ever seen before outside both Parliament and Church it was the first major embodiment of the forces that today we call civil society and Hochschild drawing on the voluminous letters and journals of the characters involved brings it compellingly to life
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Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition the elephant known as the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside earning his name from the way he kills and then tenderly buries his human victims
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The life stories of this renowned Sufi orders Golden Chain of forty saints connected through a distinguished spiritual lineage to Prophet Muhammad are narrated here in rare accounts of their miracles and training giving fresh inspiration and guidance for todays turbulent world
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One of the distinguished schools of Islamic spiritual discipline the Naqshbandi Sufi Order has a long and illustrious history from the first days of Islam Led by the shaykhs of the Golden Chaininheritors of spiritual knowledge from Prophet Muhammadthe Naqshbandi Order has always played a central pivotal role in the life of people in the Muslim world and survived the turmoil and tribulations of the past century to remain one of the few authentic mystical traditions maintaining a living link with its ancient past The extraordinary vision of the Naqshbandi Saints was manifest in their establishment of fixed devotions and daily practices firmly rooted in the Quran and Sunnah of the Prophet These practices have enabled devout seekers to awaken certainty of belief and to attain stations of nearness to the Divine Presence The renewed prominence of this order at the turn of the 21st century due to the indefatigable striving of Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim alHaqqani signals an impending change to our society in which aspirants to Divine Service will be granted to transcend the bounds of the physical senses in order to fulfill the unexplored potential in each human heart The Naqshbandi Devotions are a source of light and energy an oasis in a worldly desert Through the manifestations of Divine Blessings bestowed on the practitioners of these magnificent rites they will be granted the power of magnanimous healing by which they seek to cure the hearts of mankind darkened by the gloom of spiritual poverty and materialism We pray that each person who picks up this book of devotions with sincere intention to observe any of its efficacious practices will receive a portion of the blessings and manifestations bestowed on the greatest saints of earlier times
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