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To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today´s Slaves
Kevin Bales (Ed.)
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Description for To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today´s Slaves
Paperback. Editor(s): Bales, Kevin B.; Trodd, Zoe. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16. BIC Classification: BG; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
375g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801474385
SKU
V9780801474385
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99-1
About Kevin Bales (Ed.)
Kevin Bales is Emeritus Professor at Roehampton University and Visiting Professor at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation. A world expert on modern slavery and a leading force in the antislavery movement, he is the president of Free the Slaves and the author of Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Zoe Trodd is a ... Read more
Reviews for To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today´s Slaves
"If anyone thinks slavery is a horror buried long in the past or barbarism that always happens 'somewhere else,' this collection of narratives will puncture both of those as myths. Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd have produced a crucial volume for our times, in which modern slaves bear witness to the brutal institution with candor, eloquence, and pain. This book ... Read more