"Bury the Chains" Two summaries

Pages 167-174 of Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains is all about Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasa, as he was known in England at the time. He self-published the first edition of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasa the African, in 1789. He married a white woman, Susanna Cullen before he published his book. There were many editions of his book, each with a list of endorsements and suscribers. For many years, Equiano went a book tour, promoting each edition of the book.

Pages 192-198 of Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains begins by explaining the sugar boycott. It began in 1791, after Parliament refused to pass the bill to abolish the slave trade in England. It was not the boycott of all sugar, just a boycott of the sugar produced by slaves. The boycott was mainly enforced by women, who bought and cooked the food for their families. The idea of the boycott was spread about in pamphlets. The last part of pages 192-198 is about The Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791, on the part of the petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, written by Thomas Clarkson. The booklet of the condensed version was sold all over England, and was used in the United States in the abolition movement in the 1850's.