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Title:

Buying freedom : the ethics and economics of slave redemption / edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl ; with a foreword by Kevin Bales.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xii, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery.
Slaves--Emancipation.
Redemption (Law)--Moral and ethical aspects.
Redemption (Law)--Economic aspects.

Other Authors:

Appiah, Anthony.
Bunzl, Martin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"They call us animals," testimonies of abductees and slaves in Sudan / Some simple analytics of slave redemption / Jok Madut Jok. Slave redemption when it takes time to redeem slaves / Carol Ann Rogers, Kenneth A. Swinnerton -- Exploration of the worst forms of child labor : is redemption a viable option? / Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau -- Slavery, freedom, and sen / Stanley Engerman -- Freedom, servitude, and voluntary contracts / Jonathan Conning, Michael Kevane -- Anthropological considerations. Slavery and slave redemption in the Sudan / Jok Madut Jok -- Dilemmas in the practice of rachat in French West Africa / E. Ann McDougall -- Historical considerations. 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 -- Philosophical considerations. Moral quandary of slave redemptions / 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.

ISBN:

0691130108 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691130101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691130094 (alk. paper)
9780691130095 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006050993

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)