Chapter 15

In chapter 15 the mail was discussed. Hochschild goes into detail of how the people traveled from town to town. Because there were obviously no cars, they all travelled by horse back and buggies. With this came the highway boom and it linked all the major cities together. The mail travelled in this way, the news travelled in this way, and this was the new service that changed how petitions and ideas got passed along. These coaches also carried newspapers, vital to the antislavery movement. Throughout time there came to be libraries and more and more opportunities for the British people to read new things. All of these publications were free from censoring. This was amazing and a great way for the people to voice their opinions without getting in trouble with the government. Later on in the chapter it talks about the white Britons becoming slaves and how this was thought to be unthinkable. In 1766, they protested to more money, better conditions and did not get very far because most people did not have the right to vote.