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1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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Some simple analytics of slave redemption / Dean S. Karlan and Alan B. Krueger -- Slave redemption when it takes time to redeem slaves / Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth A. Swinnerton -- Exploration of the worst forms of child labor : is redemption a viable option? / Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. Chau -- Slavery, freedom, and sen / Stanley Engerman -- Freedom, servitude, and voluntary contracts / Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane -- Slavery and slave redemption in the Sudan / Jok Madut Jok -- Dilemmas in the practice of rachat in French West Africa / E. Ann McDougall -- End of serfdom in Russia-- lessons for Sudan? / Lisa D. Cook -- Conflicting imperatives : black and white American abolitionists debate slave redemption / Margaret M.R. Kellow -- Frederick Douglass and the politics of slave redemptions / John Stauffer -- Moral quandary of slave redemption / Howard McGary -- Next best thing / Martin Bunzl -- What's wrong with slavery? / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Appendix, "They call us animals," testimonies of abductees and slaves in Sudan / Jok Madut Jok |
| Summary |
"If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in pre-Civil War America. In Buying Freedom, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl bring together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for the first comprehensive examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption. While recognizing the obvious virtue of the desire to buy the freedom of slaves, the contributors ask difficult and troubling questions: Does redeeming slaves actually increase the demand for--and so the number of--slaves? And what about cases where it is far from clear that redemption will improve the material condition, or increase the real freedom, of a slave?"--Publisher description |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Slavery.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
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Redemption (Law) -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Redemption (Law) -- Economic aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
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Freikauf
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Slaveri.
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Slavhandel.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Appiah, Anthony
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Bunzl, Martin
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| ISBN |
9780691186405 |
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0691186405 |
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