Escape from Slavery

A Sudanese man recounts his harrowing journey from child enslavement to escape and freedom in this “touching [and] inspirational” memoir ( The Boston Globe ). 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 u