This is an eye-opening book. This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn how modern day slavery begins. This book is written by a woman who was enslaved at the age of 11. It is interesting to hear the story of her life in the Nuba mountains in Sudan as a young child.I found this book hard to put down. Some of the biggest questions in my mind as I read through this books were:
1. what makes you (the person who bought the slave) feel like you are worth more than the person you have enslaved?
2. who decides who becomes a slave and who becomes the master?
I was so angry to read how this young woman was treated. To know that slavery was abolished years ago is what everyone hangs on... like it doesn't exist now that it was put into law that it is illegal. It is still going on all around us, but it's just, for the most part, underground.
http://www.amazon.com/Slave-True-Story-Mende-Nazer/dp/1586483188/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247706598&sr=8-3#
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Have you read Do They Hear You When You Cry? If not, you should. (The Richardson library has it, that's where I read it... Probably other libraries do too.) It's disturbing, just to warn you (it's about FGM and a woman's fight to escape it.) But it's worth the read.
-Anne
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