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 | Moving and Inspiring!

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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

Powerful and inspiring

This book is the autobiography of a young man who has seen more in 21 years than most experience in a lifetime. Bok was taken into slavery at age 7, after a jihadist raid on his village in the Sudan that left his entire family dead. (With one exception, as he movingly reveals late in the book.) After ten years in captivity and living in an animal shed, he escaped and eventually came to the US. This book should be read by everyone, including younger readers, because it's a first-person account of something that most of us think was abolished in the 19th century, but in fact continues to this day. The author does public speaking and I hope our church will invite him to talk to our congregation. An amazing, moving story of imprisonment and triumph.

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Moving and Inspiring!

I ran into this book at a local store this weekend. I saw the word slavery and looked at the person on the front cover and was surprised that the picture was not medieval but one of a modern looking young gentleman. I went on to buy the book which I read with heightened interest within five hours. I admire Francis' strong will and determination for a better life for his people and his pursuit for peace in his country. I am Kenyan. A luo to be precise. Our tribe migrated from the Sudan about 500 years ago in the wake of war and famine. As I read this book I noticed that some of the Dinka names are ours which means that I may be a descendant of a Dinka. I am therefore shocked and appalled at what is going on at my old home. I don't know why my country never publicized this war while I was growing up. (I was twelve in 1986).

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It will make you cry, but then laugh in celebration!

I heard Francis Bok speak in Washington DC a few years ago and so I knew his basic story about being a slave for ten years. But even already having heard his story, the details he goes into in this book still brought me to tears! His will to survive makes Francis a roll model to freedom loving people everywhere. This book will make you cry along with Francis when he learns why he is a slave, but then also laugh along with him when he moves to America and learns about things like pizza and snow. This book is a "must read" and a "must give" to everyone on your holiday list this year!

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