Links:
Sudan.net
Sudan.update.org
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
Nuba Survival
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Recommended Books
[on the Sudan:]
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide--Gerard Prunier (Cornell University Press, 2005)
Slave: My True Story--Mende Nazer & Damien Lewis (Public Affairs, 2003)
Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery--Samuel Cotton (Harlem River Press, 1998)
War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan--Francis M. Deng (Brookings Institute, 1995)
Gordon of Khartoum: Martyr and Misfit--Anthony Nutting (Clark N. Potter Inc., 1966)
The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa--Bill Berkeley (Basic Books, 2001)
[on the American slave trade:]
Roots--Alex haley (Dell, 1973)
The Known World--Edward P. Jones (Amistad, 2004)
Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad--William M. Owens (1953)
Chapter Three, "The Silence", in Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation--Joseph J. Ellis (Vintage, 2000)
And Tyler, too: A Biography of John and Julia Gardiner Tyler--Robert Seager III (1963)
(The TransAtlantic slave trade)
The African Slave Trade: Precolonial History 1450-1850--Basil Davidson (Atlantic/Little Brown & Co.,1961: original title Black Mother)
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl--Kate McCafferty (fiction; Viking, 2002)
A Woman Nmaed Solitude--Andre Schwarz-Bart, translated from the French by Ralph Manheim (biographical fiction; Antheneum, 1973; original French edition titled La Mulatresse Solitude)
[for younger readers:]
Dream Freedom--Sonia Levitin (fiction/poetry--Silver Whistle/Harcourt, 2000)
To Be A Slave--Julius Lester (Scholastic, 1968)
Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad--Mary Cable (Viking Press, 1971)
Extracurricular studies:
For anyone who falsely believes that slavery was divinely ordained, they'd be well advised to pick up their Bible and re-read the story of Moses from the book of Exodus, Chapters 1 to 20 inclusive. The same story may be found in the Holy Quaran, Surah VII, "The Heights" (v. 103 to 139). It's an inspiring story full of wonders. Coincidentally enough, it's also shared by Christian, Jew and Muslim alike. And proof if any was ever necessary that the Intelligent Designer is not the author of slavery. Credit for that, as with most of the world's evils, rests solely in the hands of Man.
