What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do

by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

Drawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India and asks: How do contemporary slaveholders rationalize the subjugation of other human beings, and how do they respond when their power is threatened? More than a billion dollars have been spent on antislavery efforts, yet the practice persists. Why? Unpacking what slaveholders think about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181825
• ISBN13: 9780231181822
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 9.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher