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Slave : my true story / by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis.
LIBRA HT1384.K84 N39 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nazer, Mende.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nazer, Mende.
- Enslaved children--Sudan--Khartoum--Biography.
- Enslaved children.
- Enslaved children--England--London--Biography.
- Nuba (African people)--Biography.
- Nuba (African people).
- England--London.
- Sudan--Khartoum.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 351 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, 2004.
- Summary:
- Nazer was about 12 when raiders burned her Nuba village, killed the adults, and took 31 young children, who were sold in Sudan's capital Khartoum. She tells of her years in slavery, her flight after seven years, and her attainment of asylum in Britain. British journalist Lewis helped her escape and write her story. The memoir has no index or bibliography.
- Contents:
- My childhood with the nuba: My home
- Ba and me
- A family wedding
- The Arab school
- Of snakes and spirits
- The wrestling time
- The cutting time
- My dream
- Into slavery: Allah Akhbar!
- The dark forest
- To Khartoum
- The slave traders
- Sold
- Master Rahab
- No escape
- Blood rites
- Death threats
- Identity crisis
- Hospital horrors
- Revenge
- Rescue me
- Of slavery and chastity
- London bound?
- They're alive!
- New millennium, new slave
- Journey to freedom: Telling lies
- Nanu's story
- Fear of flying
- False hopes
- Death wish
- Salvation
- Truly free?: Fear of freedom
- Desperately seeking asylum
- Sanctuary
- A note from Damien Lewis
- Acknowledgments.
- ISBN:
- 1586483188
- 9781586483180
- OCLC:
- 61719469
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