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America's Legacy: The Economic Subordination of African Descendents, Hispanics & Women."
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by Roland "Bubba" Grimes

Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Trafford (2004)
ISBN: 1412043417

America's legacy is a book about modern day and historical racism, and sexism in America. This book deals with the life and times of African Americans, Hispanics and Women in the marketplace, sports, education, politics, and relationships. Told in a "P-Funk" architectural style, America's Legacy is hip, gritty and entertaining for scholars and everyday readers.

Slave
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by Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis

ISBN: 1586482122
Format: Hardcover, 368pp
Pub. Date: January 2004
Publisher: PublicAffairs

Mende Nazer lost her childhood. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village on horseback. The raiders set fire to the village huts. They murdered the adults by slitting their throats with knives. They rounded up thirty-one young children. Mende was twelve.

A slave trader brought Mende to Sudan's capital city, Khartoum, and sold her to a wealthy Arab family. So began Mende's dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her "yebit," or "black slave."

She was subjected to appalling physical, sexual, and mental abuse. She slept in a shed and ate the family leftovers like a dog. She had no rights, no freedom, and no life of her own. The only thing that kept her alive was the hope that she might see her family again.

Thousands of other child-slaves have suffered a similar fate. Normally, Mende's story never would have come to light. But seven years after she was seized and sold into slavery, she was sent to work for another master - a diplomat in London. In a desperate attempt to flee, she managed to make contact with other Sudanese, who took pity on her. In September 2000, she made a dramatic break for freedom.