A much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone - raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves sakriti opis