The first ever autobiographical account of contemporary slavery, this is the horrifying and compelling story of a young African woman's six-year captivity and dramatic escape from her captors.In 1994, the author, a twelve-year-old African girl, was kidnapped with a group of other children by raiders who torched her remote village, raping and murdering many in their way. Passed on to slave traders, she was sold to a wealthy family in an African city and kept as a domestic slave. There she spent six long years in captivity, working long hours without pay, locked at night in a garden shed, given dog scraps to eat, and regularly beaten. Eventually, she was passed on to a family living in a city in the West, and it was from there that she finally managed to escape.Because of the extraordinary nature of this story and because the author is still in jeopardy of being recaptured, she must remain anonymous until the publication of her book in September 2002.Slave is a powerful and astonishing story -- alternately heartbreaking and heroic -- that reveals a terrible and unbelievable truth: slavery is still in existence.
- ISBN10 0743232925
- ISBN13 9780743232920
- Publish Date 1 February 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint The Free Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English