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While I'm grateful for the attention Daniel Lazare gives to my book Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves ["Intolerable Cruelty," Feb. 14], in some of his comments I don't recognize the story I told. With such phrases as "Hochschild...structures his tale as a middle-class epic" and "Abolition did not succeed in Britain until it transcended the narrow middle-class moralism that Hochschild celebrates," he implies two things: (1) that the British antislavery movement was--at least until the very end--an entirely middle-class affair; and (2) that this is something I celebrate. Neither is so.
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