Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives

by Laura Murphy

Book Overview

Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their will, under the threat of violence, with little or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231164238
• ISBN13: 9780231164238
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"