Speak a Word for Freedom
  • Published: 15 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9781770496514
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $45.00

Speak a Word for Freedom

Women against Slavery

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A fascinating non-fiction account of the lives of fourteen female abolitionists, some of whom were slaves themselves, from the early days of the antislavery movement to the present.

From the early days of the antislavery movement, when political action by women was frowned upon, British and American women were tireless and uncompromising campaigners. Without their efforts, emancipation would have taken much longer. And the commitment of today's women, who fight against human trafficking and child slavery, descends directly from that of the early female activists. Speak a Word for Freedom: Women against Slavery tells the story of fourteen of these women. Meet Alice Seeley Harris, the British missionary whose graphic photographs of mutilated Congolese rubber slaves in 1904 galvanized a nation; Hadijatou Mani, the woman from Niger who successfully sued her own government in 2008 for failing to protect her from slavery, as well as Elizabeth Freeman, Elizabeth Heyrick, Ellen Craft, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Anne Kemble, Kathleen Simon, Fredericka Martin, Timea Nagy, Micheline Slattery, Sheila Roseau and Nina Smith. With photographs, source notes, and index.
  • Published: 15 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9781770496514
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for Speak a Word for Freedom

PRAISE FOR Five Thousand Years of Slavery by Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen:

"This well-researched global survey introduces readers to slavery practices, customs, suffering, uprisings, and revolts as well as antislavery efforts from ancient Greece and Rome to today's world.... The authors promote global awareness and issue a call to action.... Informative documentary photos and factually rich sidebars enhance the text. A timeline lists pivotal moments from the rise of Sumerian cities to the 2001 Cocoa Protocol denouncing child labor on African cocoa plantations. This groundbreaking title brings the disturbing subject into historical and contemporary focus." - Starred Review, School Library Journal

"Encyclopedic in scope and minutely detailed, this comprehensive volume takes on the history of slavery across the globe ... readers will be drawn in by the dramatic biographies and personal testimonies, illustrated with archival photos and paintings, that tell of racism and savage brutality, the roles of war and poverty, and also of incredible courage and resistance. With a detailed profile of Iqbal Masih, an internationally recognized young protestor who was murdered, the last chapter--about child slavery and child soldiers right now--will particularly grab young activists...." - Booklist

"...the authors weave their narrative around contemporary accounts and documented incidents, supplemented by period images or photos and frequent sidebar essays.... For timeliness, international focus and, particularly, accuracy, this leaves Richard Watkins' Slavery: Bondage Throughout History (2001) in the dust...." - Kirkus Reviews