Description |
xiii, 218 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Introduction : behind the stories : modern day slavery in context / Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten -- Ch. 1. The journey of an orphan : in and out of bondage from Haiti to Connecticut / Micheline Slattery -- Ch. 2. Beyond Abeeda : surviving ten years of slavery in Sudan / Abuk Bak -- Ch. 3. My life as a slave in America / Jill Leighton -- Ch. 4. Trapped on the balcony : a tale of a Sri Lankan held hostage in Lebanon / Beatrice Fernando -- Ch. 5. Laogai : inside China's forgotten labor camps / Harry Wu -- Ch. 6. Out of Egypt : a lifeline via email for an enslaved Au Pair in Cairo / Selina Juma -- Ch. 7. Atop the second wave : testimony from a Belarus prison / Sveta -- Ch. 8. Amazing grace : a slave owner's awakening in Mauritania / Abdel Nasser Ould Yessa -- Epilogue : where you come in / Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten |
Summary |
An exposure of modern-day slavery brings together firsthand accounts from the estimated twenty-seven million people held in slavery today, looking at the global human rights crisis and the use of slaves in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and theU.S |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Forced labor -- Case studies.
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Prostitution -- Case studies.
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Slavery -- Case studies.
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Slaves -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Biographies.
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Author |
Kasten, Liora.
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Sage, Jesse.
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LC no. |
2006049461 |
ISBN |
1403973245 (hbk.) |
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9781403973245 (hbk.) |
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