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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America Paperback – October 4, 2004

by Francis Bok (Author), Edward Tivnan

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Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award

May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and gathering the women and young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers.

For ten years, Francis lived in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. After two failed attempts to flee--each bringing severe beatings and death threats--Francis finally escaped at age seventeen. He persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials who granted passage to America.

Now a student and an antislavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak to an estimated 27 million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.

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304 pages
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English
Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date

October 4, 2004
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5.5 x 0.69 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-10

0274869055
ISBN-13

978-0312306243
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“A gripping story of terror and triumph.” ―Ebony

“A touching modern-day slave narrative...an inspirational story meant to heighten support for the antislavery movement of the 21st century, and it most likely will.” ―Joanne Skerrett, The Boston Globe

“Gripping...mindblowing. A-.” ―Karyn L. Barr, Entertainment Weekly

“Incredible.” ―Lewis Beale, USA Weekend

“[Escape from Slavery] carries the uncalculating ring of truth.” ―San Francisco Chronicle

“How will the world respond to Francis Bok's true story? Some will welcome its commercial profitability and entertainment value. And some will seek to change the world.” ―Anne Grant, Providence Journal

“Francis Bok is too young for anyone to predict a life of immortal dimensions. But if his heart-rending and powerful memoir...has just one-tenth of the impact of [Frederick] Douglass, his name will be remembered by more than a few.” ―Cary Clack, San Antonio Express-News

“This is a powerful, exceptionally well-told story, equally riveting and heartbreaking. Although legal strides have been made, with the help of people like Bok, the persistence of slavery in the world makes this a work that can't be ignored.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Bok's saga provides another--more contemporary--perspective on slavery for Americans reckoning with their own troubling history of such inhumanity.” ―Booklist

About the Author

Francis Bok is twenty-three-years old and an Associate at the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG). In 2000, he became the first escaped slave to testify before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in hearings on Sudan. He speaks throughout the United States, has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, Essence magazine, and on Black Entertainment Television, and he recently met with President George Bush at the White House. He lives in Boston.

Edward Tivnan has collaborated on and is the author of several books. He was a reporter and staff writer for Time Magazine and helped create ABC's 20/20. He lives in New York.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0312306245
Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (October 4, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0274869055
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312306243
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.69 x 8.5 inches

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Just K

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Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2005

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Frances Bok lived through what so many of us don't even know still exists. Brought up in rural Sudan, his village was raided, most of the adults killed, and most of the children taken into slavery. Frances was 7 when this happened and forced to live through horror after horror without any kindness, any love, without any affection.

Frances saw adults and children brutally murdered and it was clear to him that fighting back would cause him to also be one of the casualties.

Frances was kept in a barn, given scraps of food to eat, refused any kindness. Even the children of his captor were horrible to him. What kept Frances going was the love that had been given to him before captivity and the belief that some of his family may have survived. Indeed, there is a bittersweet ending to Bok's story.

Frances, gratefully and amazingly, does escape and live to share his memoir. When I read this book last year, I participated on a message board. I tried to share this book with educated people who adamantly refused to recognize that this story isn't all that unusual. This is STILL happening today. The perpetrators of these crimes are from a culture that devalues those that are different. Slavery, genital mutilation, abuse to women, honor killings. . . it seems as if, although we hear of these stories on a daily basis, we are still reluctant to characterize the culture as faulty. And, so it continues.

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Crystal

All things are possible if you believe

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2021

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I have traveled to Africa to a predominantly muslim country and I've seen the brainwashing first hand. Francis story is a story of oppression on a large scale to a people of African descent who have have 1/3 of the resources in the world, yet they are poor. There is a mental slavery that is oppressing Our people and until we recognize who we are as a people it will never change. All life started in Africa and Africa should be celebrated not hated and stripped of its wealth and taken from her people. I pray that one day Justice comes to her people.
God bless you Francis Bok for telling your story. It's now 2021 and I just read your story. I'm now Woke.

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Elliot

The black lives that most ignore

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2020

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If you really believe that Black Lives Matter, then read this book.
This is the amazing Odyssey of a seven-year-old black child who is stolen to be a slave in Muslim North Sudan. He is treated with disdain and left to live with the animals. He tries to escape but is threatened with death or dismemberment.
His survival against all odds is a triumph over tyranny.
There are currently hundreds of thousands of stolen black children who were sold as slaves into Muslim majority countries. This is a rare opportunity to see what life can be like when you don’t have the liberties that we take for granted in the United States.
This book was riveting not because of the sophisticated writing, but because of the shocking true story that others are still going through. A must read!

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S. L. Blanton

Slavery in Our Times

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2005

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Francis Bok is a very lucky man. Thousands of others of his tribe aren't. The shocking story of slavery that continues TODAY in the Sudan (and possibly other African and Middle Eastern countries) must be understood by anyone who still has enough heart and soul to care. This story is real! The names have NOT been changed. There are no INNOCENT to protect, only victims of the greatest possible injustice in the world today. If you can read this and not realize the implications for you and your family, and others whom you love, then I weep for your loss of humanity. Although it is the telling of a personal story, this book has truths for the state of the world. In America, we may well be living in a "fantasy land" where "rights" are thought to be a Constitutional promise. What is it that stands between us and our children and the terror and hardship experience by Francis Bok and his family? How much difference lies between the undocumented maid or yard worker you employ on a weekly basis and a teenage herder who was stolen from his home and family by killers? If you have any brain cells left to rub together, this book may be a useful way to pass your time while at the beach or hanging around the ski lodge on your next vacation.

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Adelard

Escape from slavery

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2022

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The other side story of the Sudan civil war. The slavery, there is still slavery in this century in Sudan the north are taking the southern kid to work as slaves in the north.
The author of this book is a victim of that slavery he has details wrote what happened to him and his fight to abolish it.
He has done a lot to his people

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019

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I chose 5 star rating because a man who has been through as much as he has at such a young age to be where he is at today is amazing. I find it hard to think such things go on in this day and age and hope that eventually millions of people around the world will realize that Americas slavery has ended and learn to move on and see that other countries are still suffering with it.

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P.C.

An important book to read but it left room for ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2015

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An important book to read but it left room for improvement. The first approximately one third of the book was very informative, touching, and an inspiring snapshot of the strength and power of the human spirit. Not to mention the cruelty man can inflict on his fellow man. Yes, evil still exists in this world. The approximately 2/3 of the last portion of the book was a let down, slow moving and extremely repetitive . I found myself speed reading just portions of pages and skipping many completely.

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Brand New, /sold as used

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2022

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Beautiful condition, fast delivery.

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MRS Janeth

The positive action of a hero

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2017

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This book was very informative It was well worth reading, it definitely highlighted how evil one human being can act against another person without a second thought. I'it heart warming to read how the action of one person can make such enormous difference

Cindy Read

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2016

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Great bOOK

ArchVins

A true story, mans inhumanity to man

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2018

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Shocking, in any day and age.
Francis certainly lived up to his fathers expectations.