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Escape from slavery : the true story of my ten years in captivity--and my journey to freedom in America / Francis Bok, with Edward Tivnan.

by Bok, Francis.

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New York : St. Martin's Griffin, c2003.

Sudanese Americans -- Biography.

Enslaved persons -- Sudan -- Biography.

Slavery -- Sudan.

Sudan -- Biography.

0312306245 (pbk.) :

284 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Map: Sudan and the surrounding regions -- Raid -- "Abeed" -- That's what happens when you disobey -- Why does no one love me? -- Abdul Rahman -- Perfect slave -- Be careful -- This is your last night on earth -- Double game -- Act of kindness-and another -- Jabarona -- Process -- Cairo -- September 15, 1998 - American journey -- Still "a good worker" - But now a paid one -- New abolitionists -- News from Sudan -- education of Francis Bok -- why? -- Finally, some good news from sudan -- Afterword: Continuing struggle - Acknowledgments.

In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story of captivity. In May 1986, while selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered. Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the 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 alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats, Francis finally escaped at age seventeen. Determined to avoid the fate of slavery again and to discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years. Winning the attention of United Nations officials, he was granted passage to America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery.

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