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Slave
My True Story
by Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis
Paperback, Jun 2005,
352 pages.
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From the book jacket: A shocking true story of contemporary slavery: a young girl, snatched from her tribal village in Africa, survives enslavement in Sudan and London before making a courageous escape to freedom.

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If you thought that slavery ended in 1865 - think again.  Slave tells the true story of Mende, who was captured in a raid on her Nuba village and sold into slavery in Sudan. This, and another recent book, Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America by Francis Bok...
This review is from the June 15, 2005 issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Click here to go to this issue.
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