The question of how legal chattel slavery in the British Empire came to an end is an important question to ask.  It is far from a historical curiosity.  The end of legal slavery in the British Empire potentially contains lessons on how the human rights abuses of our own time might be addressed.  Given the political and commercial interests invested in the continuation of slavery and the slave trade how could change ever have come about? Slavery in the British Empire: Hochschild In this video, Adam Hochschild, talks about why chattel slavery in the British Empire ended. He discusses the different stories that have been told (and not told) about this…