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Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption

Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption

Bunzl, Martin
Bales, Kevin
Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0691130108
ISBN13: 9780691130101
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jul 22 2007
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.23
Language: English

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?


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