{"product_id":"freedomville-the-story-of-a-21st-century-slave-revolt-9781734420746","title":"Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laura T. Murphy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Columbia Global Reports\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Columbia Global Reports\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"Columbia Global Reports","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45036012929175,"sku":"9781734420746","price":1143.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781734420746.webp?v=1769212588","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/freedomville-the-story-of-a-21st-century-slave-revolt-9781734420746","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}