Buying Freedom : The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption /
"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 wa...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.