To plead our own cause : personal stories by today's slaves /

Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slave...

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Other Authors: Bales, Kevin, Trodd, Zoe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the long Juneteenth
  • Sights and scenes : modern slave experiences
  • Ain't I a woman? female slaves and the dynamics of gender
  • The turning point : liberation from bondage
  • Not yet realized : the problem of freedom
  • The severed chain : freedom after bondage