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Troy
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:25 pm: | 
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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity - and My Journey to Freedom in America
by Francis Bok and Edward Tivnan
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312306237/aalbccom-20
Francis Bok is a native of Southern Sudan. At the age of seven, he was captured and enslaved during an Arab militia raid on the village of Nymlal on May 15, 1986. Mr. Bok saw adults and children brutalized and killed all around him. He was strapped to a donkey and taken north to Kirio.
For ten years, he lived as the family slave to Giema Abdullah, forced to sleep with cattle, endure daily beatings, and eat rotten food. Called "abeed" (black slave), Mr. Bok was given an Arabic name - Dut Giema Abdullah - and forced to perform Islamic prayers.
In December of 1996, Mr. Bok escaped to the nearby town of Matari, where he was enslaved by local policemen for two months. But an Arab truck driver helped Mr. Bok escape and eventually to reach Khartoum, the capital. In Khartoum, Mr. Bok was arrested by the security forces and jailed for seven months. After being released, Mr. Bok escaped to Cairo. In 1999, the United Nations resettled him in North Dakota. Mr. Bok is now an Associate at the American Anti-Slavery Group in Boston.
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RED
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 06:51 pm: |
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Wow Troy. Snake Queen is going to LOVE U for posting this.
You should also post the new book by FEMALE slave Mende Nazer. It's called "SLAVE" and it's even more horrific than Bok's book.
She escaped from Sudan, too, after the same experience.
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