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Zana Muhsen (born in 1965 in Birmingham, England), is a British author known for her book Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery and its follow-up A Promise to Nadia. [1] The books narrate the experiences that she and her sister Nadia (born 1966) went through after they were sold into marriage by their father, Muthanna Muhsen, a Yemeni émigré.
Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million [ 1 ] to 49.6 million, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition ...
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1963.
We will be exploring the phenomenon of contemporary slavery including, but not limited to: debt bondage, sexual slavery, child labor (including child soldiers), trafficking across borders, abolitionist organizations, international agreements, connections between slavery and corruption and slavery and war, continuation of chattel slavery, and theories of disposability.
Not My Life is a documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery.It addresses many forms of slavery, [1] including the military use of children in Uganda, involuntary servitude in the United States, unfree labor in Ghana, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse.
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America is a book by W. Caleb McDaniel. It won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History. [1] [2]
Kara's first non-fiction book on contemporary slavery, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, was published by Columbia University Press in January 2009. The book won the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, given to the most outstanding nonfiction book on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements. [17]
"The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret": George Washington, Slavery and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon is a scholarly book on the history of slavery at Mount Vernon during the times of George Washington. Written by Mary V. Thompson, the book was published in the United States in 2019.