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From the author of Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American, which has sold more than 25,000 copies, comes a searing memoir that puts a human face on the issue of child slavery and sounds a call to end it through advocacy and education

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• The Jean R. Cadet Restavek Organization’s Call to Action

About the Author

Jean-Robert Cadet founded the Jean R. Cadet Restavek Organization to bring an end to child slavery in Haiti through increased global awareness of the issue while also providing immediate relief to children trapped in the restavek system. His consultations with the Haitian government and prominent citizens, and his appearances on radio shows and in schools in Port-au-Prince, are changing attitudes in Haitian society. He continues to raise global awareness by speaking at high schools and universities across the United States and to government organizations around the world. Cadet has addressed the United Nations, the International Labor Organization, and the U.S. Senate, and has also appeared on CNN, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and 60 Minutes.

Reviews

"His [Cadet's] is a vivid, moving and highly readable narrative of the struggle with the psychological wounds of slavery as well as the personal determination that got him to set up the Jean R Cadet Restavek Organization, dedicated to ending child slavery in Haiti." - New Internationalist, April 2012