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

Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America | Francis Bok, Edward Tivnan | must read for anyone interested in sudan

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	Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America Francis Bok, Edward Tivnan St. Martin's Griffin, 2004 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

wonderful account

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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must read for anyone interested in sudan

I found this book enlightening not knowing anything about the current sitaution in sudan other than bits and pieces in the news. I finished this book in almost one sitting i couldn't out it down. I knew of slavery in sudan ,but had no human face or story to put with it.

MUST READ BIOGRAPHY!

My only problem with Francis Bok's story is that it took me so long to finally hear it. It is eye-opening and inspiring. A very quick read, that will leave you wanting to meet and listen to this amazing man.

absolutely amazing

This is an amazing story about slavery in OUR OWN TIME!! I never even knew slavery still exisited; however, it still does! This specific book examines slavery in Sudan with Piol Bok Buk (Chrisitan Name: Francis). This is a story about Piol, who innoncently goes to the market -to a village not far from his own. He is very excited that he finally gets to go by himself, but hes going with some cousins. He went to the market only to be raided my Sudaneese muslims from the North. Francis was in captivitiy for 10 years after 3 escape attempts, its a charm! Francis then moves to Egypt to try to get passage to a different country as a U.N. Refugee. He is granted to the United States. The last half of the book focuses primarily on his life in the United States, and what is happening now. It is really a remarkable book, and I STRONGLY recommend it! This book was a required reading for school. I am so thankful it was because I wouldnt have found the book otherwise, and I'm very glad I did!

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Slavery in Our Times

Francis Bok is a very lucky man. Thousands of others of his tribe aren't. The shocking story of slavery that continues TODAY in the Sudan (and possibly other African and Middle Eastern countries) must be understood by anyone who still has enough heart and soul to care. This story is real! The names have NOT been changed. There are no INNOCENT to protect, only victims of the greatest possible injustice in the world today. If you can read this and not realize the implications for you and your family, and others whom you love, then I weep for your loss of humanity. Although it is the telling of a personal story, this book has truths for the state of the world. In America, we may well be living in a "fantasy land" where "rights" are thought to be a Constitutional promise. What is it that stands between us and our children and the terror and hardship experience by Francis Bok and his family? How much difference lies between the undocumented maid or yard worker you employ on a weekly basis and a teenage herder who was stolen from his home and family by killers? If you have any brain cells left to rub together, this book may be a useful way to pass your time while at the beach or hanging around the ski lodge on your next vacation.

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