Overview

Slavery remains rampant worldwide. At least 27 million men, women, and children are enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indentured workers in Burma. This book tells some of their stories. -The statistics of modern day slavery are shocking,- writes Baroness Cox. -Behind each statistic is a human being ' a man, woman, or child; and behind each human being is a family and a community which have been devastated or destroyed. As real-life experiences often speak louder than words, we introduce some of the hundreds of former slaves we have met personally.- The picture is changing rapidly: there are grounds for optimism, but also fresh concern. This popularly written but carefully researched volume has been fully updated for this new edition. It includes chapters on the causes of slavery, on the history of the practice, on different forms of contemporary slavery and truly shocking case studies from Sudan, Burma, Uganda, Indonesia, and the UK. Dr Lydia Tanner contributes a new chapter on human trafficking, and Mal Egner provides a chapter on the conditions endured by the Dalits of India. Former slave and South Sudanese Olympic athlete, Guor Marial, writes the foreword.

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Author:   Baroness Caroline Cox ,  Ziallo Gogui ,  John Marks
Publisher:   SPCK Publishing
Imprint:   Monarch Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.287kg
ISBN:  

9780857214447

ISBN 10:   0857214446
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   23 August 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Acknowledgments 11 Foreword: My Experience of Slavery in Sudan (Guor Marial) 15 Introduction to the Second Edition (Caroline Cox) 19 1 William Wilberforce: A Mission Not Yet Complete 25 Part ONE MODERN SLAVERY: THE VOICES OF TODAY’S SLAVES 2 Introduction: Shatter the Silence 33 3 Let the Slaves of Sudan and South Sudan Speak 35 Slavery in North-western Bahr el Ghazal 36 Slavery in Abyei 63 Slavery in the Nuba Mountains 66 The Process of Redemption 70 Conclusion 75 Sudan Update: The Glory and the Grey 77 4 Let the Abducted Children of Northern Uganda Speak 81 The Abduction, Brutalization, and Slaughter of Children 82 The Voices of the Children 83 Conclusion 99 An Update from Uganda 101 5 Let the Sex Slaves, Forced Porters, and Child Soldiers of Burma Speak 105 Sexual Slavery 108 Let the Victims of Forced Labour Speak 126 Child Soldiers 132 Update from Burma 134 Part TWO SLAVERY PAST AND PRESENT 6 Slavery Through the Ages 139 Introduction: What Is Slavery? Definitions, Distinctions, and International Conventions 139 History of Slavery 140 7 Human Trafficking: The Return of the Global Trade in People (Dr Lydia Tanner) 149 Sarah’s Story 150 What is Human Trafficking? 152 The Global Trafficking Trade: Why It Has Grown 161 Trafficking in Europe and North America 162 What is Being Done? 164 The Outlook 178 8 When Untouchables Become Touchable: Dalit Trafficking and Slavery: India’s Dark Secret (Mal Egner) 181 9 Contemporary Slavery: Variations on the Theme 191 Chattel Slavery 191 Debt Bondage 192 Forced Labour 193 Devadasi and Jogini (Temple Prostitutes) 196 10 Breaking the Bonds 199 Bonds of Ignorance 199 Bonds of Silence 199 Bonds of Interest 200 Bonds of Ideology 200 Bonds of Complacency 200 Bonds of Complicity 201 Bonds of the Enslaved 201 What Then Must We Do? 201 Publicity and Parliaments 202 National and International Diplomacy 203 Linkage: An Idea Whose Time Has Come 203 ""We Have A Dream"" 204 Notes 205 Bibliography 214"

Reviews

This Immoral Trade was emotionally difficult to read. Rape, murder, and bondage cause the victim's voices to cry out from within its pages and grip our heart. If you can get through the documented information and photos without tears of compassion, or are able to stay the screams of outrage that rise in your throat at the injustices being carried out every minute of every day, then you probably don't deserve the precious freedom you are now enjoying . . . . If you want to find out more about present-day slavery, I suggest you read This Immoral Trade. This is a 5-star, thought provoking read.--Jan Warren armchairinterviews.com (05/21/2007)

Author Information

Dr Lydia Tanner is the Advocacy and Communications Manager for the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust.

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