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Ballard, Timothy.
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Slaves -- Emancipation.
Human trafficking victims.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 21st century.
Madison Choice Award Nonfiction Nominees 2019
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Ballard, Timothy.
Salt Lake City, UT : Shadow Mountain, [2018] [2018]
Subjects
Slaves -- Emancipation.
Human trafficking victims.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 21st century.
Madison Choice Award Nonfiction Nominees 2019
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Two stories, more than a century apart . . . In the 1800s American South, Harriet Jacobs is enslaved and tormented by a cruel master. He relentlessly attempts to force her into a sexual union, and, when rebuffed, he separates her from her children and spends a lifetime trying to coerce her and
then
recapture her when she escapes to freedom. Jacobs outwits her tormentor and eventually reunites with her children, works in the cause of abolition and reform, and helps newly freed slaves with education and aftercare. In 2009, Timothy Ballard encounters a grieving father in Haiti whose three-year-old son has been kidnapped and sold into slavery along with thousands of children who were orphaned after an earthquake devastated the country. He pledges to track down the missing child and leaves his job at the Department of Homeland Security to establish Operation Underground Railroad to infiltrate black markets in human trafficking, liberate victims, and provide a comprehensive aftercare process involving justice and rehabilitation for survivors.
Slave
Stealers
alternates these two riveting stories, weaving them ¬together to expose the persistent evil of trafficking and sexual exploitation that has existed for centuries and ¬inspiring us to find a way to end it. Filled with heartbreaks and triumphs, miracles and disappointments, hair-raising escapes and daring
rescues
, this gripping book provides insight to this terrible evil and the good that can be done when caring people step up and stand in the light.
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xviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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