Escape from Slavery The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America

Name: Escape from Slavery The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
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ISBN: 9780312306243

ISBN-10: 0312306245

ISBN-13: 9780312306243

Edition: Revised

Authors: Francis Bok, Edward Tivnan, Conrad Allen

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Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and gathering the women and young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. After two failed attempts to flee--each bringing severe beatings and death threats--Francis finally escaped at age seventeen. He persevered through prison and refugee…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 10/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English