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Hochschild continues his story of Equiano. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus the African became a best seller due to the promotion of the author. Equiano went on a book tour through all parts of Britian, all over Europe, the West Indies and the Americas. His book showed his life, the aspects of slavery many did not know about and he used this to aid in the abolitionist movement. He wrote and edited the entire book alone, and becasue of this he was able to write whatever he wanted. Many book stores stocked the book, many individuals bought it for their friends and family, and he also used abolition groups to help spread the book throughout the countries. It was very well known and very important to the movement at that time. Later on, the discussion of the sugar boycott is shown. Many people, mostly women, participated in the abolitionist movement by not buying or using any product that contained sugar, becasue it was made by slave labor. Of course there were more products they could have stopped using, but sugar was the most convenient and symbolic. This was a way in which all citizens could participate, unlike voting. After a short period of time the Abstract was published which included evidence of slavery, pure evidence, no Biblical references making it the strongest piece of writing the abolitionists had.