Pg. 167-174 and Pg. 192-198

In Chapters 12 and 13 of Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains, Hochschild finally addresses what those who had actually experienced slavery were attempting to do about the problem. He also shows how people of Britain took action not only with petitions but boycotts as well. Hochschild portrays Equiano in a light that he had only before reserved for Clarkson. He tells of Equiano's entrepreneurial spirit and his ability to sell his bestselling autobiography mostly by traveling and physically selling the book. The most striking and effective part is how with each new edition Equiano prints the names of those wealthy and predominant patrons who had purchased his book. Hochschild goes on to describe the effect that the propaganda and writing had had on the people. Sugar became a luxury worth living without. Nearly 300,000 people boycotted sugar during this movement. Perhaps the most inspiring of these was when a ten year old boy refused to have sugar because he had read one of the abolitionists books. These chapters mark the high point for the abolitionists at the early stages of their movement.