Can I read My Stone of Hope : From Haitian Slave Child to Abolitionist on EtoBox?

My Stone of Hope : From Haitian Slave Child to Abolitionist by Jean-Robert Cadet, with the assistance of Jim Luken is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is My Stone of Hope : From Haitian Slave Child to Abolitionist about?

There are 27 million slaves living in the world todaymore 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 American a 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 na

Author

Jean-Robert Cadet, with the assistance of Jim Luken

Publisher

Austin: University of Texas Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292729292

Subjects

Memoir, Science, History