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WHAT SLAVEHOLDERS THINK HOW CONTEMPORARY PERPETRATORS RATIONALIZE WHAT THEY DO AUSTIN CHOI-FITZPATRICK WHAT SLAVEHOLDERS THINK WHAT SLAVEHOLDERS THINK HOW CONTEMPORARY PERPETRATORS RATIONALIZE WHAT THEY DO AUSTIN CHOI-FITZPATRICK Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York(cid:3273)Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright (cid:139) 2017 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin, author. Title: What slaveholders think : how contemporary perpetrators (cid:3273)rationalize what they do / Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] (cid:95) (cid:3273)Includes bibliographical references and index. Identi(cid:1006)ers: LCCN 2016028996 (print) (cid:95) LCCN 2016041855 (ebook) (cid:95) (cid:3273)ISBN 9780231181822 (cloth : alk. paper) (cid:95) ISBN 9780231543828 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Slavery—History—21st century. (cid:95) Human tra(cid:1010)cking. (cid:95) (cid:3273)Forced labor. Classi(cid:1006)cation: LCC HT867 .C46 2017 (print) (cid:95) LCC HT867 (ebook) (cid:95) (cid:3273)DDC 306.3/620905—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016028996 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover design: Jason Heuer For the children of Issachar I am a master. I have employed people and done so much for them. I have ful(cid:1006)lled my duties toward my servant. They should real- ize this and ful(cid:1006)ll their duties as a servant and they should main- tain that master-servant distance.(cid:172).(cid:172).(cid:172). If we don’t supervise our servants then we’ll be (cid:1006)nished. So they should understand that there is a di(cid:1016)erence between master and the servant, and that the masters have a particular role and that the servants have a particular role. —Radhesh (Interviewee 31) If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to sepa- rate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago CONTENTS Acknowledgments(cid:3273)xi 1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets(cid:3273)1 2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social Movement Targets(cid:3273)16 3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery(cid:3273)40 4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation(cid:3273)62 5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats(cid:3273)92 6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India(cid:3273)121 7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement(cid:3273)141 8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and Reappraisal(cid:3273)159 Notes(cid:3273)179 References(cid:3273)199 Index(cid:3273)217
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