Laura T Murphy

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Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave RevoltPaperback, 7 September 2021

Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt
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Print Length
150 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Date Published
7 Sep 2021
ISBN-10
173442074X
ISBN-13
9781734420746

Description

A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?

Millions of people today are still enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who founded their own town of Azad Nagar--Freedomville--after staging a rebellion against their slaveholders. International organizations championed it as a non-violent silent revolution that inspired other villagers to fight for their own freedom. But Laura T. Murphy, a leading scholar of contemporary global slavery who spent years researching and teaching about Freedomville, found that there was something troubling about Azad Nagar's success.

Murphy embarks on a Rashomon-like retelling--a complex, constantly changing narrative of a murder that captures better than any sanitized account just why it is that slavery continues to exist in the twenty-first century. Freedomville's enormous struggle to gain and maintain liberty shows us how realistic it is to expect radical change without violent protest--and how a global construction boom is deepening and broadening the alienation of impoverished people around the world.

Product Details

Author:
Laura T Murphy
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
7 September 2021
Dimensions:
18.8 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm
ISBN-10:
173442074X
ISBN-13:
9781734420746
Language:
English
Location:
New York City
Pages:
150
Weight:
136.08 gm

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