{"product_id":"freedomville-9781734420746","title":"Freedomville","description":"\u003cb\u003eA celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMillions 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMurphy 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":"Laura T. Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48281750143227,"sku":"9781734420746","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781734420746_4b36d05a-8005-47cf-ad9f-3b2299069461.jpg?v=1772486261","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/freedomville-9781734420746","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}