9780801474385-0801474388-To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves

To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves

ISBN-13: 9780801474385
ISBN-10: 0801474388
Author: Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780801474385
ISBN-10: 0801474388
Author: Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves (ISBN-13: 9780801474385 and ISBN-10: 0801474388), written by authors Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd, was published by Cornell University Press in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Human Rights (Constitutional Law) books. You can easily purchase or rent To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Human Rights books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. To Plead Our Own Cause contains ninety-five narratives by slaves and former slaves from around the globe.

Told in the words of slaves themselves, the narratives movingly and eloquently chronicle the horrors of contemporary slavery, the process of becoming free, and the challenges faced by former slaves as they build a life in freedom. An editors' introduction lays out the historical, economic, and political background to modern slavery, the literary tradition of the slave narrative, and a variety of ways we can all help end slavery today. Halting the contemporary slave trade is one of the great human-rights issues of our time. But just as slavery is not over, neither is the will to achieve freedom, "plead" the cause of liberation, and advocate abolition. Putting the slave's voice back at the heart of the abolitionist movement, To Plead Our Own Cause gives occasion for both action and hope.

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