Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia

ISBN-13: 9780299137540 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 236 str.

Martin A. Klein

Opis

Because the American history of slavery and emancipation tends to be foremost in Western minds, few realise that traditional forms of servitude still exist in a variety of places around the world: children are sold on the streets of Bangkok, bondage persists in India despite official efforts to abolish it and, until 1980, slavery was legal in Mauritania.