Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption by Kwame Anthony Ap

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Brings together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for an examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption. This book 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, and more.

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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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Subtitled, The Ethics & Economics Of Slave Redemption.

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"How to end slavery in the twenty-first century? Should contemporary slaveholders be paid to let their victims go? These are the key questions addressed in Buying Freedom , one of the few books on the economics and ethics of contemporary slave redemption. And these questions are crucial not only for understanding how to root out chattel slavery and similar practices in a few remote countries. They have gained new urgency with the global spread of human trafficking and the growing awareness that different forms of forced labor still exist." --Patrick Belser, Economist, Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, International Labour Organisation "This excellent and thought-provoking collection raises both practical and moral questions about the important issue of slave redemption. Few people know that the numbers of slaves run into the millions and that so many are children. And I think few readers will anticipate that buying the freedom of slaves may bid up the price and end up causing more people to be enslaved. Fewer still will have wondered about what should be done." --Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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"How to end slavery in the twenty-first century? Should contemporary slaveholders be paid to let their victims go? These are the key questions addressed in Buying Freedom , one of the few books on the economics and ethics of contemporary slave redemption. And these questions are crucial not only for understanding how to root out chattel slavery and similar practices in a few remote countries. They have gained new urgency with the global spread of human trafficking and the growing awareness that different forms of forced labor still exist."-- Patrick Belser, Economist, Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, International Labour Organisation "This excellent and thought-provoking collection raises both practical and moral questions about the important issue of slave redemption. Few people know that the numbers of slaves run into the millions and that so many are children. And I think few readers will anticipate that buying the freedom of slaves may bid up the price and end up causing more people to be enslaved. Fewer still will have wondered about what should be done."-- Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Author Biography

Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include Cosmopolitanism (Norton). Martin Bunzl is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and the author of Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kevin Bales vii Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl 1 PART I: THE ECONOMICS OF REDEMPTION 7 Chapter 1: Some Simple Analytics of Slave Redemption by Dean S. Karlan and Alan B. Krueger 9 Chapter 2: Slave Redemption When It Takes Time to Redeem Slaves by Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth A. Swinnerton 20 Chapter 3: An Exploration of the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Is Redemption a Viable Option? by Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. Chau 37 Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and Sen by Stanley Engerman 77 Chapter 5: Freedom, Servitude, and Voluntary Contracts by Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane 108 PART II: ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS 141 Chapter 6: Slavery and Slave Redemption in the Sudan by Jok Madut Jok 143 Chapter 7: Dilemmas in the Practice of Rachat in French West Africa by E. Ann McDougall 158 PART III: HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS 179 Chapter 8: The End of Serfdom in Russia-Lessons for Sudan? by Lisa D. Cook 181 Chapter 9: Conflicting Imperatives: Black and White American Abolitionists Debate Slave Redemption by Margaret M. R. Kellow 200 Chapter 10: Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Slave Redemptions by John Stauffer 213 PART IV: PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 223 Chapter 11: The Moral Quandary of Slave Redemption by Howard McGary 225 Chapter 12: The Next Best Thing by Martin Bunzl 235 Chapter 13: What's Wrong with Slavery? by Kwame Anthony Appiah 249 Appendix: "They Call Us Animals," Testimonies of Abductees and Slaves in Sudan by Jok Madut Jok 259 List of Contributors 269 Index 271

Review

"Slavery? In the modern world? Many readers will be shocked to read that human beings are still owned, bought, and sold. Editors Appiah and Bunzl present a series of essays documenting current slavery issues in a broad context as well as providing a historic context, analyzing some changes that have occurred in slave-based industries from the late 1700s to the present."--D. E. Mattson, Choice "Buying Freedom is an instructive volume on the question whether slave redemption makes sense or not. The contributions cover the most varied methodological approaches, which is certainly an asset of the book."--Paul Ramskogler, Journal of Economic Issues

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How to end slavery in the twenty-first century? Should contemporary slaveholders be paid to let their victims go? These are the key questions addressed in Buying Freedom, one of the few books on the economics and ethics of contemporary slave redemption. And these questions are crucial not only for understanding how to root out chattel slavery and similar practices in a few remote countries. They have gained new urgency with the global spread of human trafficking and the growing awareness that different forms of forced labor still exist. -- Patrick Belser, Economist, Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, International Labour Organisation This excellent and thought-provoking collection raises both practical and moral questions about the important issue of slave redemption. Few people know that the numbers of slaves run into the millions and that so many are children. And I think few readers will anticipate that buying the freedom of slaves may bid up the price and end up causing more people to be enslaved. Fewer still will have wondered about what should be done. -- Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Long Description

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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"This excellent and thought-provoking collection raises both practical and moral questions about the important issue of slave redemption. Few people know that the numbers of slaves run into the millions and that so many are children. And I think few readers will anticipate that buying the freedom of slaves may bid up the price and end up causing more people to be enslaved. Fewer still will have wondered about what should be done." --Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Details ISBN0691130108 Short Title BUYING FREEDOM Publisher Princeton University Press Language English ISBN-10 0691130108 ISBN-13 9780691130101 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 306.362 Year 2007 Imprint Princeton University Press Subtitle The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States Author Kevin Bales Edited by Martin Bunzl Translated from English DOI 10.1604/9780691130101 UK Release Date 2007-07-22 NZ Release Date 2007-07-22 US Release Date 2007-07-22 Pages 280 Publication Date 2007-07-22 Alternative 9780691130095 Illustrations 8 line illus. 22 tables. Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2007-10-01 We've got this

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