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Buying freedom : the ethics and economics of slave redemption / edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl ; with a foreword by Kevin Bales. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. - xii, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some simple analytics of slave redemption / Slave redemption when it takes time to redeem slaves / Exploration of the worst forms of child labor : is redemption a viable option? / Slavery, freedom, and sen / Freedom, servitude, and voluntary contracts / Slavery and slave redemption in the Sudan / Dilemmas in the practice of rachat in French West Africa / End of serfdom in Russia-- lessons for Sudan? / Conflicting imperatives : black and white American abolitionists debate slave redemption / Frederick Douglass and the politics of slave redemptions / Moral quandary of slave redemptions / Next best thing / What's wrong with slavery? / "They call us animals," testimonies of abductees and slaves in Sudan / Dean S. Karlan and Alan B. Krueger -- Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth A. Swinnerton -- Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. Chau -- Stanley Engerman -- Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane -- Jok Madut Jok -- E. Ann McDougall -- Lisa D. Cook -- Margaret M. R. Kellow -- John Stauffer -- Howard McGary -- Martin Bunzl -- Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Jok Madut Jok. Appendix,

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

LCCN: 2006050993

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA722555 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013699476 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slavery.
Slaves--Emancipation.
Redemption (Law)--Moral and ethical aspects.
Redemption (Law)--Economic aspects.

LC Class. No.: HT857 / .B65 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 306.3/62