Adam Hochschild has been a daily newspaper reporter, a founding editor at Mother Jones, and commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He is the author of six books,including “King Leopold’s Ghost”, most of them on subjects related to human rights. His new book titled “Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves” has just been published by Houghton Mifflin.

The Los Angeles Times calls Adam’s new book:

“… a fresh and vigorous narrative of an important movement. . . . by far the most readable and rounded account we have of British anti-slavery, a campaign that, as the author rightly claims, helped to change the world and can be seen as a prototype of the modern social justice movement.”