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Francis Bok - Escape from slavery 9 Months, 4 Weeks ago Karma: 0  
Excellent book. It's about a Sudanese Dinka man's experience as a child slave, and his eventual escape and journey to America. Fascinating story. You really get some excellent first person accounts as to how it felt like to be a slave, to be dehumanized and all the personal struggles that went along with it. I'm going to try to find out when he has speaking arrangements, I'd like to see him in person.
 
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Re:Francis Bok - Escape from slavery 9 Months, 3 Weeks ago Karma: 0  
Africans been enslaving one another for time immemorial. Europeans did it for about a couple hundred years, but we get all the shit for it. Africans are still doing it to each other today!
 
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I've actually skimmed through that book. What was fascinating about it was the insight it gave you into the mind of a person who was going through a process of dehumanization, and their internal struggle to maintain their identity and yearning for freedom. Very powerful story.
 
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