Survivors of Slavery
Modern-Day Slave Narratives
(Sprache: Englisch)
Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico,...
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Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their will, under the threat of violence, with little or no means of escape. Representing a variety of circumstances in diverse contexts, these survivors are the Frederick Douglasses, Sojourner Truths, and Olaudah Equianos of our time, testifying to the widespread existence of a human rights tragedy and the urgent need to address it.
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Foreword by Kevin Bales and Minh DangAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Allure of Work2. Slaves in the Family3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom5. Community Response and Resistance6. Case Study: Mining Unity7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery8. Becoming an Activist9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory CaucusEpilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists--What You Can Do to End SlaveryAppendix A: Antislavery OrganizationsAppendix B: Signs of EnslavementAppendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and ViewingNotesIndex
Autoren-Porträt von Laura T. Murphy
Laura Murphy is assistant professor of English and director of the Modern Slavery Research Project at Loyola University New Orleans. Her research focuses on historical and modern slavery in global literatures. The author of Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature, she is also the director of the Survivors of Slavery speakers network.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Laura T. Murphy
- 2014, 384 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- ISBN-10: 0231164238
- ISBN-13: 9780231164238
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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By documenting modern slavery in this collection of slave narratives, Laura Murphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering but often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries, not only on the plantations of the Americas but also in households in Africa and commercial firms in India and throughout the Islamic world. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and the persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute
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