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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt" (Columbia Global Reports, 2021)
Description: A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?
Millions of people around the world today are enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else.Ā Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave RevoltĀ (Columbia Global Reports, 2021) by Dr. Laura Murphy is the story of a small group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, who founded their own town of Azad NagarāFreedomvilleāafter staging a rebellion against their slaveholders. International organizations championed this as a nonviolent āsilent revolutionā that inspired other vill...