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Enslaved : true stories of modern day slavery / edited by Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten ; foreword by Gloria Steinem. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2008.Description: xiii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781403974938
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HT857.S244.E575 2008
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Forward / Gloria Steinem -- Behind the stories : modern day slavery in context / Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten -- The journey of an orphan : in and out of bondage from Haiti to Connecticut / Micheline Slattery -- Beyond Abeeda : surviving ten years of slavery in Sudan / Abuk Bak -- My life as a slave in America / Jill Leighton -- Trapped on the balcony : a tale of a Sri Lankan held hostage in Lebanon / Beatrice Fernando -- Laogai : inside China's forgotten labor camps / Harry Wu -- Out of Egypt : a lifeline via email for an enslaved au pair in Cairo / Selina Juma -- Atop the second wave : testimony from a Belarus prison / Sveta -- Amazing grace : a slave owner's awakening in Mauritania / Abdel Nasser Ould Yessa -- Where you come in / Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten.
Subject: From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, domestic servants and chattel slaves. This collection of first-hand accounts will raise awareness and show how slavery is thriving in the 21st century.
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Forward / Gloria Steinem -- Behind the stories : modern day slavery in context / Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten -- The journey of an orphan : in and out of bondage from Haiti to Connecticut / Micheline Slattery -- Beyond Abeeda : surviving ten years of slavery in Sudan / Abuk Bak -- My life as a slave in America / Jill Leighton -- Trapped on the balcony : a tale of a Sri Lankan held hostage in Lebanon / Beatrice Fernando -- Laogai : inside China's forgotten labor camps / Harry Wu -- Out of Egypt : a lifeline via email for an enslaved au pair in Cairo / Selina Juma -- Atop the second wave : testimony from a Belarus prison / Sveta -- Amazing grace : a slave owner's awakening in Mauritania / Abdel Nasser Ould Yessa -- Where you come in / Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten.

From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, domestic servants and chattel slaves. This collection of first-hand accounts will raise awareness and show how slavery is thriving in the 21st century.

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