In 1863, American blacks were not the only enslaved people with emancipation on the mind. On the northeastern coast of South America, in the Dutch colony of Suriname, some 30,000 slaves also prepared for their day of freedom, which would arrive with the government’s emancipation mandate of July 1, 1863, six months after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Holland’s Plan for America’s Slaves
Holland’s Plan for America’s Slaves
Recent Publications
- “Equal Opportunity, Not Reparations” in the Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)
- “A Bayesian Solution to Hallsson’s Puzzle”
- Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests, 2nd Edition
- “Optimizing political influence: a jury theorem with dynamic competence and dependence”
- Why not anarchism?
Recent News
- Advocacy group concerned pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario will hurt voluntary donations
- Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore, Debating Democracy (University of Zurich’s UBS Center, 2024)
- Jason Brennan “Everything Wrong with Democracy” on the Alex O’Connor Podcast (January 28, 2024)
- On the affirmative action ruling, the Supreme Court got it half right
- Is the effective altruism movement in trouble?