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The Slave Experience
How does a person become enslaved? How are slaves treated? What is the mental toll of slavery? How do slaves become free?
These questions remind us that slavery is really about human beings, about people denied the most basic human right. What follows are snapshots of the human experience behind the term "slavery." The testimonies are but a small sample of the millions who live today as slaves.
Becoming a Slave | The Physical Experience | The Mental Experience | Going Free
Escape from Slavery
For ten years, Francis Bok was a child slave in Sudan. Now he shares his story in this groundbreaking autobiography.
In Contempt of Fate
When she was 23, Beatrice Fernando was trafficked into Lebanon and endured three hellish months of slavery in Beirut. Now living in the U.S., she recounts her ordeal in her book, In Contempt of Fate.
In Their Words...
- Juliette (Benin)
- Miguel Almeida de Oliveira (Brazil)
- Anonymous (Brazil)
- Muang Hla (Myanmar/Burma)
- Zaw Zaw (Myanmar/Burma)
- Thary (Cambodia)
- Fu Shengqi (China)
- Solon Louis-Jean (Dominican Republic)
- Noi (England)
- Natasha (Germany)
- Mercy Ameyo Senahe (Ghana)
- Judith (Haiti)
- Marcelineis (Haiti)
- Rambabu (India)
- Lakshmi (India)
- Maya (India)
- Valentina (Israel)
- Anna (Italy)
- Ahmeimidi Ould El Khaliva (Mauritania)
- Aïchanna Mint Abeid Boilil (Mauritania)
- Fatma Mint Mamodou (Mauritania)
- Anonymous (Mauritania)
- Gauri Maya Tamang (Nepal)
- Mainya (Nepal)
- Iqbal Masih (Pakistan)
- Ataullah (Pakistan)
- Carlos Tamani Vargas (Peru)
- Mawien Ahir Bol and Yak Kenyang Adieu (Sudan)
- Adut Kon Deng (Sudan)
- Chen Chen (Taiwan)
- Ying Chen (Thailand)
- Thonglim Khampiranon (United States)
- Fernando Maldonado (United States)
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