Buying Freedom : : The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption / / ed. by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martin Bunzl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Appiah, Kwame Anthony,; Bales, Kevin,; Basu, Arnab K.,; Bunzl, Martin,; Chau, Nancy H.,; Conning, Jonathan,; Cook, Lisa D.,; Engerman, Stanley,; Jok, Jok Madut,; Karlan, Dean S.,; Kellow, Margaret M. R.,; Kevane, Michael,; Krueger, Alan B.,; Mcdougall, E. Ann,; Mcgary, Howard,; Rogers, Carol Ann,; Stauffer, John,; Swinnerton, Kenneth A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Appiah, Kwame Anthony,; Bunzl, Martin,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bales, Kevin.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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? Buying Freedom includes essays by the editors and by Dean Karlan and Alan Krueger, Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth Swinnerton, Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau, Stanley Engerman, Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane, Jok Madut Jok, Ann McDougall, Lisa Cook, Margaret Kellow, John Stauffer, and Howard McGary.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I The Economics of Redemption -- Chapter One. Some Simple Analytics of Slave Redemption -- Chapter Two. Slave Redemption When It Takes Time to Redeem Slaves -- Chapter Three. An Exploration of the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Is Redemption a Viable Option? -- Chapter Four. Slavery, Freedom, and Sen -- Chapter Five. Freedom, Servitude, and Voluntary Contracts -- Part II Anthropological Considerations -- Chapter Six. Slavery and Slave Redemption in Sudan -- Chapter Seven. Dilemmas in the Practice of Rachat in French West Africa -- Part III Historical Considerations -- Chapter Eight. The End of Serfdom in Russia-Lessons for Sudan? -- Chapter Nine. Conflicting Imperatives: Black and White American Abolitionists Debate Slave Redemption -- Chapter Ten. Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Slave Redemptions -- Part IV Philosophical Considerations -- Chapter Eleven. The Moral Quandary of Slave Redemption -- Chapter Twelve. The Next Best Thing -- Chapter Thirteen. What's Wrong with Slavery? -- Appendix: "They Call Us Animals," Testimonies of Abductees and Slaves in Sudan -- Contributors -- Index