To Plead Our Own Cause Personal Stories by Today's Slaves

Name: To Plead Our Own Cause Personal Stories by Today's Slaves
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ISBN: 9780801474385

ISBN-10: 0801474388

ISBN-13: 9780801474385

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd

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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 slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. To Plead Our Own Cause contains ninety-five narratives by slaves and former slaves from around the globe. Told in the words of slaves themselves, the narratives movingly and eloquently chronicle the horrors of contemporary slavery, the process of becoming free, and the…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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



Antislavery Organizations and Agencies


Permissions and Credits


Index