"What Slaveholders Think" Book Talk with Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

"What Slaveholders Think" Book Talk with Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Date
Thu October 5th 2017, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Event Sponsor
WSD Handa Center for Human Rights & International Justice & The Freedom from Slavery Forum
Location
450 Serra Mall, Building 300, Room 300
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The Event:
The Freedom from Slavery Forum presents a book talk with author Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick on the evening of October 5th at Stanford University. Join us to hear Choi-Fitzpatrick discuss his new book "What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do." This event is supported by Free the Slaves and the WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University.The Author:
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, co-editor of From Human Trafficking to Human Rights, has worked in the anti-slavery movement for fifteen years. During that time he’s been frustrated at why the practice continues despite the millions of dollars spent to stop it. But while arguments against slavery seem self-evident, he noticed that the case in favor of it is largely unvoiced. To rectify that, Choi-Fitzpatrick, who teaches political sociology at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies, talked to those who use slave labor to get their perspective on the issue. His groundbreaking book unveils both slaveholders’ moral blindness and the intricate power relationship that can make it difficult to emancipate enslaved workers.

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