Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book AwardMay 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 under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years; Francis lived in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. After two failed attempts to flee--each bringing severe beatings and death threats--Francis finally escaped at age seventeen. He persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years; winning the attention of United Nations officials who granted passage to America.Now a student and an antislavery activist; Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak to an estimated 27 million people held against their will in nearly every nation; including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure; a story of desperation and triumph; and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An Analogy to North Korea's Behaviors TodayBy A CustomerAs the year 2000 marks the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War; this book is quite thought-provoking as it meticulously describes how President Syngman Rhee of South Korea struggled to ensure the survival and rehabilitation of his country in the closing days of the war and how he interrelated state security with the survival of his regime as his popularity declined in later years. The book; well documented based on extensive source materials and interviews the author had with personalities concerned; is also instructive for its implications that help its readers better understand the political mentality and negotiation behaviors of Korean leaders; be they communists or West-oriented politicians like Rhee who was educated at Princeton and Harvard and who lived for decades in exile in the United States. One can draw an analogy between various unilateral actions taken by Rhee in his attempt to secure better terms in armistice talks and ultimately a firm U.S. security and economic commitment to his country; as illustrated in the book; and the brinkmanship that North Korea's Kim Il-sung and his son; Kim Jong-il; have employed in their deals with the U.S. in recent years for the survival of their state and regime; playing nuclear and missile cards. As Rhee turned out to be the very victim of his inflexible policy governing the interaction between state security and regime security; it is to be seen how North Korea will manage a similar interaction and what sort of fate it will face as the result.
