Buying Freedom : : The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption /

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

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 p...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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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

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