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Francis Bok
Francis Piol Bol Bok, (born 1979) Dinka tribesman, former Sudanese slave turned abolitionist. He was captured and enslaved during an Arab militia raid on the village of Nymlal on May 15, 1986 and enslaved at age seven. Bok lived in bondage for 10 years before his escape and journey to America.
He looked at me and said, "You want to know why no one loves you and why you must sleep with the animals?... I make you sleep with the animals... because you ARE an animal..."from Escape from Slavery, Bok's autobiography.
Books
- Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity - and My Journey to Freedom in America Francis Bok, Edward Tivnan ISBN 0312306237
External Links
- Bearing Witness to the Scars of Slavery Boston Globe
- Statement of Francis Bok Associate, American Anti-Slavery Group testamony before the Foreign Relations Committee U.S. Senate.
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