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Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

Professor, Writer, University of San Diego

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is an assistant professor at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. His latest book is What Slaveholders Think (2017).

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Written by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

Workers unloading large baskets of cotton onto a pile against a blue sky. A woman in a blue sari is in the foreground.

essayHuman rights and justice

What do slaveholders think?

It is everywhere illegal yet slavery persists in many corners of the global economy. How do its beneficiaries justify it?

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick