Buying Freedom
The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9357669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Appiah, K Bales (0000-0003-1516-7148) |
| Editors | Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martin Bunzl |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 280 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Buying Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780691186405 |
| OpenAlex | W649444899 |
| ISBN | 9780691186405 |
| Open Library | OL33766771M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
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
Kwame · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Economic aspects · emancipation · Freikauf · LAW · Law, economic aspects · Moral and ethical aspects · Redemption · Redemption (Law) · Slaveri · Slavery · Slaves · Slavhandel
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |