History And Classical Studies

Adam Hochschild presents "Twelve Men in a Printing Shop, May 22, 1787: A Great Human Rights Movement is Born," a lecture on the birth of British abolitionism. This is the subject of his newest book, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Houghton Mifflin: 2005). Hochschild teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of five other books, including King Leopold's Ghost, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. Hochschild is introduced by Prof. David Northrup, a member of the history faculty at Boston College. Speaker: Adam Hochschild Date: December 1, 2005 Length: 1:14:46