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Black slaves in Sudan.(Slave)(Book review)
Slave, by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis; Virago, 2004, $29.95.
"I'D STARTED TO BELIEVE that this was how the world was: the Arabs enslaved the blacks. These could be the words of one of Muhammad's black slaves in Arabia 1300 years ago. But they are in fact the words of a black girl living in slavery in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, just a few years ago. Her name is Mende Nazer and she tells her story in her book Slave.
Mende lived with her family and her tribe in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan until she was twelve. Then one night the Arab raiders, the Mujahidin, came to her village: "I clutched onto my parents' hands and started running, but the raiders ...
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