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Buying Freedom

2007-07-22 Law
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Release : 2007-07-22
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Buying Freedom by : Kwame Anthony Appiah

Download or read book Buying Freedom written by Kwame Anthony Appiah. This book was released on 2007-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption the authors deal with questions such as: 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?

Beyond Freedom

2017-11-01 Social Science
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Release : 2017-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Beyond Freedom by : David W. Blight

Download or read book Beyond Freedom written by David W. Blight. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to equality of opportunity? In examining such questions, rather than defining every aspect of postemancipation life as a new form of freedom, these essays develop the work of scholars who are looking at how belonging to an empowered government or community defines the outcome of emancipation. Some essays in this collection disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation. Others offer trenchant renderings of emancipation, with new interpretations of the language and politics of democracy. Still others sidestep academic conventions to speak personally about the politics of emancipation historiography, reconsidering how historians have used source material for understanding subjects such as violence and the suffering of refugee women and children. Together the essays show that the question of freedom—its contested meanings, its social relations, and its beneficiaries—remains central to understanding the complex historical process known as emancipation. Contributors: Justin Behrend, Gregory P. Downs, Jim Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard Newman, James Oakes, Susan O’Donovan, Hannah Rosen, Brenda E. Stevenson.

Forging Freedom

1988 African Americans
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Release : 1988
Genre : African Americans
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Book Rating : 333/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Forging Freedom by : Gary B. Nash

Download or read book Forging Freedom written by Gary B. Nash. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children, and train leaders who would help abolish slavery.

Buying Freedom

2018-06-05 Political Science
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Release : 2018-06-05
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Buying Freedom by : Kwame Anthony Appiah

Download or read book Buying Freedom written by Kwame Anthony Appiah. This book was released on 2018-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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? Buying Freedom includes essays by the editors and by Dean Karlan and Alan Krueger, Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth Swinnerton, Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau, Stanley Engerman, Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane, Jok Madut Jok, Ann McDougall, Lisa Cook, Margaret Kellow, John Stauffer, and Howard McGary.

Rationality and Freedom

2004-03-30 Business & Economics
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Release : 2004-03-30
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Rationality and Freedom by : Amartya Sen

Download or read book Rationality and Freedom written by Amartya Sen. This book was released on 2004-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.

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