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.
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ISBN
9780691186405
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Princeton University Press
Språk
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Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok