Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt

Millions of people around the world today are 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 this as a nonviolent "silent revolution" that inspired other villagers to fight for their own freedom. But Laura T. Murphy,...