Question

Slavery persists to this day, particularly in some parts of the Sudan. Raiding parties steal children from their home villages and sell them in slave markets many miles away. When news of this ongoing tragedy came to public attention, well-intentioned charitable foundations raised money for slave redemption – buying victims out of slavery to return them to their families. Was that a good idea?

Answer 1

No. Slave redemption by buying the slaves or victims to return them to their families was definitely not a good idea. It can be accepted that some of the slaves were returned to their families because of this activity. But on the other hand, this slave purchase, even it was intended for redemption, marked a real value and opened markets for it. Besides, high prices offered by charitable foundations, would have increased the demand for slaves. Above all, this tuned the slave trade into a business and provided incentives to the raiders to conduct more raids. In short, this activity of buying slaves to get them out of slavery was not at all a good idea in fact this would have widened the scope and incentive for slave trade