Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America

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AuthorBok, Francis
PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
Bindingpaperback
PublishedOctober 4, 2004
EditionFirst Edition
LanguageEnglish
Pages304
ISBN-100312306245
ISBN-139780312306243
Weight0.6 lb
Dimensions
H × W × L		 1.0 in × 5.5 in × 8.1 in

Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America

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Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and gathering the women and 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 in a shed near...

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Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award


May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and gathering the women and 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 in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. After two failed attempts to flee—each bringing severe beatings and death threats—Francis finally escaped at age seventeen. He persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials who granted passage to America.


Now a student and an antislavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak to an estimated 27 million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.


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