To Plead Our Own Cause : : Personal Stories by Today's Slaves / / ed. by Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd.
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 slave...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Sights and Scenes: Modern Slave Experiences
- 2. Ain’t I a Woman? Female Slaves and the Dynamics of Gender
- 3. The Turning Point: Liberation from Bondage
- 4. Not Yet Realized: The Problem of Freedom
- 5. The Severed Chain: Freedom after Bondage
- Appendix: Antislavery Organizations and Agencies
- Permissions and Credits
- Index