Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.;Elizabeth Freeman -- Elizabeth Heyrick -- Ellen Craft -- Harriet Tubman -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Frances Anne Kemble -- Alice Seeley Harris -- Kathleen Simon -- Fredericka Martin -- Timea Nagy -- Micheline Slattery -- Hadijatou Mani -- Sheila Roseau -- Nina Smith. Tells the stories of fourteen women who have fought against human trafficking and child slavery, including Alice Seeley Harris, the British missionary whose graphic photographs of mutilated Congolese rubber slaves in 1904 galvanized a nation, and Hadijatou Mani, the Nigerian woman who successfully sued her own government in 2008 for failing to protect her from slavery.
From the Publisher
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 for abolition; without their efforts, emancipation could have taken decades longer. As Gunn and Willen's other collaborative nonfiction title for young people, Five Thousand Years of Slavery (Tundra, 2011) demonstrates, slavery still exists in the modern world. What Speak a Word for Freedom shows is that so do indefatigable female campaigners.