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Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was . How will the world respond to Francis Bok's true story? Some will welcome its commercial profitability and entertainment value

Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award 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. How will the world respond to Francis Bok's true story? Some will welcome its commercial profitability and entertainment value. And some will seek to change the world.

After enduring 10 years of slavery, Bok escaped to freedom in Cairo, where he became a . Frances Bok lived through what so many of us don't even know still exists. refugee, eventually making his way to the . at the age of 21. Having learned Arabic in Northern Sudan and English in America, Bok, with incredible determination, became involved in the antislavery movement, speaking around the country while seeking to earn a high-school degree. Brought up in rural Sudan, his village was raided, most of the adults killed, and most of the children taken into slavery.

Escape from Slavery book. 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 Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award.

Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. by Francis Bok and Edward Tivnan. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven 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. Read on the Scribd mobile app.

May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group.

May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when . 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.

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. ped 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. 8 people like this topic.

Francis’s book is Escape from Slavery: The True Story of Ten Years in Captivity - And My Journey to Freedom in America, co-written with Edward Tivnan (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2003).

Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility.

The cruelty that Francis Bok experienced at age seven-and which he. .Bok was taken into slavery at age 7, after a jihadist raid on his village in the Sudan that left his entire family dead

Escape from Slavery : The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity - And My Journey to Freedom in America. The cruelty that Francis Bok experienced at age seven-and which he recounts here-defies civilized human conception. One day in 1986, his mother Marial sent him to Nyamlell's market from their Southern Sudan Dinka village of Gourion to sell eggs and peanuts. Bok was taken into slavery at age 7, after a jihadist raid on his village in the Sudan that left his entire family dead. With one exception, as he movingly reveals late in the book.

Francis Bok. Edward Tivnan. Manufacturer: St. Martin's Release date: 14 October 2003 ISBN-10 : B000C9WXXG. add. Separate tags with commas, spaces are allowed. Use tags to describe a product . for a movie Themes heist, drugs, kidnapping, coming of age Genre drama, parody, sci-fi, comedy Locations paris, submarine, new york.