{"product_id":"freedomville-laura-t-murphy-9781734420746","title":"Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt","description":"\u003cb\u003eA celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura T. Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 173442074X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781734420746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia Global Reports\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.96w x 0.55d","brand":"Laura T. Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046111736063,"sku":"9781734420746","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18fd7e86-48ed-448b-891d-d68751b255b9.jpg?v=1684982697","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/freedomville-laura-t-murphy-9781734420746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}