Bury the Chains:Chapter 21

Chapter 21 of Bury the Chains starts off with a Duel between the Prime Minister and George Tierney. 2 exchanges of bullets flew by and missed one another, it was at this point the duel was ended an "valiant tie." This upset Wilberforce alot because not only did Pitt have a duel but he did so on a Sunday which upset Wilberforce. This is interesting because it ties in very well with what the first critic in the critic reviews had to say. The critic called Hochschild out for being very anti-Christianity and Hochschild's use of "also that he had done so on a Sunday" (Pg. 299).
The dawn of the nineteenth century bought the british abolitionist movement to a slowed pace. With the killing of white men all around them due to slave uprisings people began to feel less bad for the entrapped blacks.
The abolitionist movement picked up another strong hand in James Stephens. Stephens was a very intellectual smart person who knew how to talk to parliament so that his point would be made the most clearly and intellectually. Stephens eventually pushed forth the Foreign Slave Trade Act that would basically cut off 2/3 off all slavery in Britain. This act sailed through the house of Commons with surprising ease (Pg. 303).
After vigorous amounts of work put forth by Clarkson, again. It was now in early 1807 that the bull aboloshing the entire slave trade was signed and passed. Even King George III signed the bill. But to more than half a million slaves in the British Caribbean they were all still expurgated.