Murphy Survivors of Slavery

Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53575-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their will, under the threat of violence, with little or no means of escape. Representing a variety of circumstances in diverse contexts, these survivors are the Frederick Douglasses, Sojourner Truths, and Olaudah Equianos of our time, testifying to the widespread existence of a human rights tragedy and the urgent need to address it.

Through storytelling and firsthand testimony, this anthology shapes a twenty-first-century narrative that many believe died with the end of slavery in the Americas. Organized around such issues as the need for work, the punishment of defiance, and the move toward activism, the collection isolates the causes, mechanisms, and responses to slavery that allow the phenomenon to endure. Enhancing scholarship in women's studies, sociology, criminology, law, social work, and literary studies, the text establishes a common trajectory of vulnerability, enslavement, captivity, escape, and recovery, creating an invaluable resource for activists, scholars, legislators, and service providers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Laura T.

Murphy, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Prostitution und Sexindustrie: Soziale & Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Allure of Work
2. Slaves in the Family
3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel
4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom
5. Community Response and Resistance
6. Case Study: Mining Unity
7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery
8. Becoming an Activist
9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus
Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists -- What You Can Do to End Slavery
Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations
Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement
Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
Notes
Index

Leseproben

Read "The Allure of Work," the first chapter from Survivors of Slavery:

Über Autor(innen)

Laura T. Murphy is assistant professor of English, director of the Modern Slavery Research Project at Loyola University New Orleans, and director of the Survivors of Slavery speakers network. She is the author of Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature