Chapters 6 & 7

Throughout chapter 6 and 7 of Bury the Chains, the abolitionist movement is beginning to become popular. In chapter 6 the movement was brought up as "the 1700s... the century of Enlightenment, the upwelling of ideas about human rights that eventually led to... expanded suffrage". Different abolitionist begin to make a mark on the map in both Britain and the Americas such as, Thomas Clarkson, a Peckard's Latin contest winner. He was deeply disturbed by slavery and used his talents to work along with other Brtitish abolitionist, press printers, and publishers to write the document that would stir the abolitionist movement. The Quakers helped in getting the movement started and there was a lot of support from the Christian community. Chapter 7 starts off by going back in time twelve years to the American Revolution. As there is this revolution the British set free the slaves and offer "Liberty to Slaves" who join the British army and navy. When the war was over the American slave owners had a hard time getting back the freed and escaped slaves. They demanded that the British pay them back for taking away their property but the negotiations did not go in their favor until about twenty years later. 

While I was reading these two chapters I noticed that the story was a little confusing. There were many more characters in these two chapters and it seemed to revolve around more than one of them. It was very scattered but followed the theme of trying to explain how the movement began. It was nice to revisit the same scene as the first page of the book, the printing shop. I think it is important that the author revisits the stories that were not fully explained in the beginning and it helps to be able to piece together the various parts of the British Abolitionist movement.