Chapter 11

In Chapter 11 of Adam Hochschild’s novel Bury the Chains, he initially writing about King George III. He was diagnosed insane, but then sang “’Rule, Britannia’ to his Queen and daughters, and this was considered by all a sign of returning sanity.” The city celebrated with joy with fireworks filling the sky and even homeless people decorating candles. “Modern medical historians believe the King to have suffered from porphyria, a rare blood disease that can cause hysteria.” An abolition bill was introduced in the 1789 session of Parliament. Wilberforce made his first speech to Parliament and the abolitionists had hearings about the slave trade at the Committee on Trade and Plantations of the Privy Council.