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My stone of hope : from Haitian slave child to abolitionist / Jean-Robert Cadet, with the assistance of Jim Luken.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cadet, Jean-Robert, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cadet, Jean-Robert, 1955-.
- Cadet, Jean-Robert.
- Haitian Americans--Biography.
- Haitian Americans.
- Children--Haiti--Social conditions.
- Children.
- Haitian Americans--Social conditions--Haiti--Biography.
- Haiti--Social conditions.
- Haiti.
- Cincinnati (Ohio)--Biography.
- Cincinnati (Ohio).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 279 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cadet tells the story of his youth as a restavek, a practice of using children as unpaid and uneducated domestic workers often subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. He is an advocate for these children and argues that the practice has created damaged adults incapable of participating in a productive economy--From P. [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1
- CHAPTER 2
- CHAPTER 3
- CHAPTER 4
- CHAPTER 5
- CHAPTER 6
- CHAPTER 7
- CHAPTER 8
- CHAPTER 9
- CHAPTER 10
- CHAPTER 11
- CHAPTER 12
- CHAPTER 13
- CHAPTER 14
- CHAPTER 15
- CHAPTER 16
- CHAPTER 17
- CHAPTER 18
- THE JEAN R. CADET RESTAVEK ORGANIZATION’S CALL TO ACTION
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780292738843
- 0292738846
- OCLC:
- 760886422
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