Five Thousand Years of Slavery - Softcover

Gann, Marjorie; Willen, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110191792X ISBN 13: 9781101917923

Verlag: Tundra Books, 2015

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PRAISE FOR Five Thousand Years of Slavery
"The authors promote global awareness and issue a call to action.... This groundbreaking title brings the disturbing subject into historical and contemporary focus." - Starred Review, School Library Journal

..".readers will be drawn in by the dramatic biographies and personal testimonies ... will particularly grab young activists...." - Booklist

..".the authors weave their narrative around contemporary accounts and documented incidents, supplemented by period images or photos and frequent sidebar essays...." - Kirkus Reviews

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When they were too impoverished to raise their families, ancient Sumerians sold their children into bondage. Slave women in Rome faced never-ending household drudgery. The ninth-century Zanj were transported from East Africa to work the salt marshes of Iraq. Cotton pickers worked under terrible duress in the American South.

Ancient history? Tragically, no. In our time, slavery wears many faces. James Kofi Annan's parents in Ghana sold him because they could not feed him. Beatrice Fernando had to work almost around the clock in Lebanon. Julia Gabriel was trafficked from Arizona to the cucumber fields of South Carolina.

Five Thousand Years of Slavery provides the suspense and emotional engagement of a great novel. It is an excellent resource with its comprehensive historical narrative, firsthand accounts, maps, archival photos, paintings and posters, an index, and suggestions for further reading. Much more than a reference work, it is a brilliant exploration of the worst - and the best - in human society.

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• Verlag: Tundra Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 110191792X
• ISBN 13: 9781101917923
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176