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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Appiah, Anthony, editor.

Bales, Kevin.

Bunzl, Martin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Redemption (Law)--Economic aspects.

Redemption (Law).

Redemption (Law)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 283 p. :) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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? 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Bales, Kevin

Introduction / Appiah, Kwame Anthony / Bunzl, Martin

Part I The Economics of Redemption

Chapter One. Some Simple Analytics of Slave Redemption / Karlan, Dean S. / Krueger, Alan B.

Chapter Two. Slave Redemption When It Takes Time to Redeem Slaves / Rogers, Carol Ann / Swinnerton, Kenneth A.

Chapter Three. An Exploration of the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Is Redemption a Viable Option? / Basu, Arnab K. / Chau, Nancy H.

Chapter Four. Slavery, Freedom, and Sen / Engerman, Stanley

Chapter Five. Freedom, Servitude, and Voluntary Contracts / Conning, Jonathan / Kevane, Michael

Part II Anthropological Considerations

Chapter Six. Slavery and Slave Redemption in Sudan / Jok, Jok Madut

Chapter Seven. Dilemmas in the Practice of Rachat in French West Africa / Mcdougall, E. Ann

Part III Historical Considerations

Chapter Eight. The End of Serfdom in Russia-Lessons for Sudan? / Cook, Lisa D.

Chapter Nine. Conflicting Imperatives: Black and White American Abolitionists Debate Slave Redemption / Kellow, Margaret M. R.

Chapter Ten. Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Slave Redemptions / Stauffer, John

Part IV Philosophical Considerations

Chapter Eleven. The Moral Quandary of Slave Redemption / Mcgary, Howard

Chapter Twelve. The Next Best Thing / Bunzl, Martin

Chapter Thirteen. What's Wrong with Slavery? / Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Appendix: "They Call Us Animals," Testimonies of Abductees and Slaves in Sudan / Jok, Jok Madut

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691186405

0691186405

OCLC:

1132217823