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

click here for more details, find new or used items	Francis BOK, Edward Tivnan Our price £12.61 (£13.94) New from £12.61 Used from £1.99 Pages: 288 (Hardcover) ISBN: 0312306237 Pub: St. Martin's Press Pub date: 2003-10-14 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 174987

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Frances Bok lived through what so many of us don't even know still exists. Brought up in rural Sudan, his village was raided, most of the adults killed, and most of the children taken into slavery. Frances was 7 when this happened and forced to live through horror after horror without any kindness, any love, without any affection.

Frances saw adults and children brutally murdered and it was clear to him that fighting back would cause him to also be one of the casualties.

Frances was kept in a barn, given scraps of food to eat, refused any kindness. Even the children of his captor were horrible to him. What kept Frances going was the love that had been given to him before captivity and the belief that some of his family may have survived. Indeed, there is a bittersweet ending to Bok's story.

Frances, gratefully and amazingly, does escape and live to share his memoir. When I read this book last year, I participated on a message board. I tried to share this book with educated people who adamantly refused to recognize that this story isn't all that unusual. This is STILL happening today. The perpetrators of these crimes are from a culture that devalues those that are different. Slavery, genital mutilation, abuse to women, honor killings. . . it seems as if, although we hear of these stories on a daily basis, we are still reluctant to characterize the culture as faulty. And, so it continues.

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