Bury the Chains: Chapter 9

Clarkson and Wilberforce team up and fight parliament. Clarkson and WIlberforce seemed to be the necessary team in stopping the slave trade. Wilberforce was the insider and Clarkson was the antagonist, together they "rallied the troops" and formed a major movement. Books, paintings and newspaper articles all came out fighting the crude world of slavery. They knew that stopping England was not enough, they soon started to pour out pamphlets and anti-slavery propaganda all throughout the U.S.
As the Chapter progresses we get up to Johnb Newton, a once prominent man in the slave trade is now against it and telling his stories of horror. This is my problem with the slave trade, people who opposed it, only opposed it, once it was of no more use to them. Newton was all for the slave trade while he was banking off of it, Lincoln was all for the slave trade while he had hundreds doing all his work. Newton said it was bad once he retired, Lincoln condemned it once he was dead...it's just bullshit.
Quobano Ottobah Cugoano was a African male who was kidnapped at age 13 for the slave trade. Cuguano, now older, wrote a book and brought up a reason away from the biblical sense and more towards the ethics. He said it is simply not ethical to take a slave. With more and more antislavery debates a proclomation was passed to fine people who traded human beings.