Today her book provides a look into slavery that one would not find in history books. ... It took her five years to write and complete her book. ... Jacobs is credited to be the first black woman to write a book narrative. ... It was in all of the master's best interest to separate families so no bonds would be made, but Harriet had a forceful motherly love for her children, and no one would break that. ... In her book, she spoke of a mother she met in the streets on this day. ...

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Introduction Slave trade and slavery officially ended in Sudan in 2003. However, modern-day slavery still exists. The International Labor Organization (ILO) and the UN stipulate that by 2006, the number of individuals held in slavery worldwide was estimated at 12-27 million, surpassing any earlier numbers, including the 16 thru 19th century slave trade of the Trans -Atlantic (Salett, 2006). Obviously, the global population is much higher than it was in the 19th century, but the scale of the problem nonetheless remains staggering. Between 700,000 and 900,000 people, mostly women and childre...

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Taj fought through two separate wars over the past ten years. ... Chaga and the Chocolate Factory is a children's book by Bob Hartman based on the true life of a young boy in Mali, that illustrates how that happens. The book is about a young boy named Chaga whose parents sell him to a man to go work at a cocoa plantation (or the "chocolate factory") This book touches base on certain circumstances of human trafficking that people often don't realize. ... This may seem like a dark sort of a children's book but I like the author's goal of making the youth aware of th...

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His first popular book was "Innocents Abroad- (1869), followed by "Tom Sawyer- and "Huckleberry Finn- (1876). ... Then that home was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible - (5) Only seemingly harmless and peaceful though, because Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town inhabited by townsmen of Virginian ancestry, and by slaves. ...

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