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    Slavery in Sudan

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    Slavery predates writing and can be found in almost all cultures and continents. Historically, slavery was the form that most conquistadors used to dominate people years ago. The conquistadors sold and kidnapped humans to do the physical work for them. In Africa where the human tread persist in this days, Sudan has been facing the slavery problem since twenty century. Most slaves were initially captured in wars or kidnapped in isolated raids, but some were sold into slavery trade by their parents

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    Slavery In Sudan

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    Sudan had had a horrific civil war since 1956, between two different regions that practice two different religions, Muslim North and Christian South (“Slave Redemption Increases Slavery in Sudan”). The Muslim North governs their country in Khartoum, and they praise or even support the idea of attacking the Christian South villages and capturing people, who were later sold into slavery (“Slave Redemption Increases Slavery in Sudan”). The civil war continued on for decades until October 2002, the United

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    Slavery In Sudan

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    In a conflicted country like Sudan, any money people can come across is a gift. This makes money a colossal reason to increase slave trade. People in Sudan are grasping for a life line, the thirty five dollars they receive when they free slaves is the perfect rope (Inskeep). If this life line was something all Arabs were looking for, the number of slaves would have increased. All of these assumptions of sly slave traders have no evidence behind them. According to Dr. Jacobs, an expert in the field

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    Once the holidays came up, her new mistress and her family left to Sudan, leaving her to stay with the families friends. This was her chance to escape. Having no knowledge of the English language she approached anyone who had seemed to speak Arabic. After several attempts, she was able to contact a man whom she had found in a garage pumping tires. Mende was able to explain to him how she had been abducted and forced into slavery. He told her he knew another Nuba man living in London and would help

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    nature of the world stems from how reality is framed through in the beginning of life, and many hold onto this time of life as the foundation of who they become. In her memoir, Slave: My True Story, Mende Nazer describes the impact that her time in slavery during the early years of her life had on her personal reality as well as her own role within the world. The oppression she faced during her years of maturation not only changed her own perspective of herself, but also her past and her understanding

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    Country Information Located in central Africa, South Sudan is landlocked amid the countries of Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo, Kenya and the Central African Republic. It is a land of expansive grassland, swamps and tropical rain forests. The country is linguistically and ethnically very diverse. It is a home to more approximately 11 million people, 50.6% of whom are below the poverty line. It has a Gross Domestic Product (per capita) of $1,220. Commerce and infrastructure is extremely underdeveloped in

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    Question 6 The people calling him liar’s are the people in Sudan. They do not want the Americans to find out that there is slavery in some parts of Sudan. There were some other people too calling Bok a liar about slavery but I’m not sure who they are. Bok didn’t let them stop him though he kept going around the world to talk about how he was slave and how he managed to escape from Sudan. Some people in the audience threatened to kill Bok because he was telling his story to people. Bok made history

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    America and South America have evolved because there is less slavery in South America and Americans have helped to evolve that. The American history is that slavery was ended by the civil war between the north and the south and the north had won. Since the war there was a lot of racism towards the blacks. We have evolved from treating them like they do not belong here to accepting them but still having some against them. People have now become racist against other kinds of people such as Muslims

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    Francis Bok Summary

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    For ten years that little kid was a slave. When he was 17, he finally escaped and went to U.S.A to begin a new life. His mission was to end slavery in Sudan. With his help and the work of others, the result was Sudan Peace Act. The passage of the Sudan Peace Act and Talisman's withdrawal from Sudan has proven how powerful such grassroots human rights activism can be. Francis Bok is a person who fought for his freedom. While he was growing up he made decisions about his

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    especially “need to hear” Bok’s words because not a lot of people know about slavery in Sudan and because it was once like that for people here in America. Also, Bok is not very fluent in english yet so he may be hard to understand at times. The people need to hear about the slavery in Sudan because most people think that slavery is over with and no longer exists. If the people know about it, then they can help stop slavery and save millions of people along with allowing those people to be free. After

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