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9781942600251, titled "No Man Is an Island: A Memoir of Family and Haïtian Cuisine" | Rare Bird Books, January 12, 2016, cover price $15.95
Hardcover:
9780061966866 | Harpercollins, September 18, 2012, cover price $26.99
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9780061966873 | Harpercollins, May 7, 2013, cover price $15.99
Product Description: This contemporary biography series profiles the lives of some of today's most prominent newsmakers; whether covering contributions and achievements or notorious deeds, books in this series examine why these well-known people garner public attention...read more
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9781420507638 | 1 edition (Lucent Books, September 28, 2012), cover price $39.40 | About this edition: This contemporary biography series profiles the lives of some of today's most prominent newsmakers; whether covering contributions and achievements or notorious deeds, books in this series examine why these well-known people garner public attention.
There are 27 million slaves living in the world todayâmore than at any time in history. Three hundred thousand of them are impoverished children in Haiti, who "stay with" families as unpaid and uneducated domestic workers, subject to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. This practice, known locally as restavek ("staying with"), is so widespread that one in ten Haitian children is caught up in this form of slavery.Jean-Robert Cadet was a restavek in Haiti from the late 1950s until the early 1970s. He told the harrowing story of his youth in Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class Americanâa landmark book that exposed ongoing child slavery in Haiti. Now in My Stone of Hope, Cadet continues his story from his early attempts to adjust to freedom in American society to his current life mission of eliminating child slavery through advocacy and education. As he recounts his own struggles to surmount the psychological wounds of slavery, Cadet puts a human face on the suffering that hundreds of thousands of Haitians still endure daily. He also builds a convincing case that child slavery is not just one among many problems that Haiti faces as the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Rather, he argues that the systematic abuse of so many of its children is Haiti's fundamental problem, because it creates damaged adults who seem incapable of governing the country justly or managing its economy productively.For everyone concerned about the fate of Haiti, the welfare of children, and the freedom of people around the globe, My Stone of Hope sounds an irresistible call to action.
Hardcover:
9780292728530 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 15, 2011, cover price $29.95
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9780292729292 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 15, 2011, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: There are 27 million slaves living in the world todayâmore than at any time in history.
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9781426970825 | Trafford on Demand Pub, June 22, 2011, cover price $12.00
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9781585011537 | Sterling House Pub, June 30, 2009, cover price $18.95
Product Description: African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society -- the children of the poor -- by using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy...read more
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9780292712027 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
Paperback:
9780292712034 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $19.95
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