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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…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2007Princeton University Press · 296 pages · 9780691130101
- Hardcover · English · 2007Princeton University Press · 296 pages · 9780691130095
- Other · English · 2018Princeton University Press · 280 pages · 9780691186405
EmancipationRedemption (Law)SlaverySlavesMoral and ethical aspectsEconomic aspectsSlaves, emancipationLaw, economic aspects