To Plead Our Own Cause

Released on by Kevin Bales
preview-18

  • To Plead Our Own Cause Book Detail

  • Author : Kevin Bales
  • Release Date : 2013-09-30
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 273
  • ISBN 13 : 0801458323
  • File Size : 79,79 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

To Plead Our Own Cause by Kevin Bales PDF Summary

Book Description: Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. To Plead Our Own Cause contains ninety-five narratives by slaves and former slaves from around the globe. Told in the words of slaves themselves, the narratives movingly and eloquently chronicle the horrors of contemporary slavery, the process of becoming free, and the challenges faced by former slaves as they build a life in freedom. An editors' introduction lays out the historical, economic, and political background to modern slavery, the literary tradition of the slave narrative, and a variety of ways we can all help end slavery today. Halting the contemporary slave trade is one of the great human-rights issues of our time. But just as slavery is not over, neither is the will to achieve freedom, "plead" the cause of liberation, and advocate abolition. Putting the slave's voice back at the heart of the abolitionist movement, To Plead Our Own Cause gives occasion for both action and hope.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own To Plead Our Own Cause books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

To Plead Our Own Cause

To Plead Our Own Cause

File Size : 71,71 MB
Total View : 6420 Views
DOWNLOAD

Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gu

To Plead Our Own Cause

To Plead Our Own Cause

File Size : 65,65 MB
Total View : 9092 Views
DOWNLOAD

"Fleshing out the important links between Reformed theology, the institution of slavery, and the rise of the antislavery movement, author Christopher Cameron ar

American Prophets

American Prophets

File Size : 2,2 MB
Total View : 2910 Views
DOWNLOAD

A "powerful text" (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern America American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives