Chapter 21 - Summary

In Chapter 21 of Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild the abolitionists are still determined to eliminate the British slave trade despite the fact that the trade was helping the economy prosper.  We are then introduced to James Stephen who helped draft a bill trying to eliminate two thirds of the British slave trade - something which became a problem.  Finally, in 1806, the Bill passed and no one had any reason to disagree with it.  In 1807, a Bill passed eliminating the British slave trade in its entirety.