Slave Stealers True Accounts of Slave Rescues-then and Now

I think it's really cool how you framed the book about African American slavery in the United States.

I thought this is going to be like a little treatise from a ex-cop on the slavery industry or the child trafficking industry and it really is like this African American slave story that tells the same unfortunately very similar story of what we have going on right now although this happened hundreds of years ago which is in a way things haven't changed.

and it's the slavery is different it's different I would never want to you know lose the integrity of the transatlantic slave trade not stories for sure but there's enough parallels that were just so crazy not to try to learn from what happened before how we eradicated before.

and just like in the 18th 19th century no one's really talking about it it's too hard people look away they don't want to engage and so again there's so many parallels how do you create a movement how do you get people interested in the suffering of others and the children don't have a voice you know they can't protest they can't rally they can't organize these children who are abused their and they're the most precious in the world and yet you don't hear there's no marches for them there's no.

I think you're on to something there because when I first saw this I think I was introduced to you through this documentary which will link in the show notes is available is it Amazon Prime or something like that I always recommend these things.

I think it's really cool how you framed the book about African American slavery in the United States.

I thought that was an especially hopeful story or part of the story coming from somebody who had lived a really hard life and honestly didn't have a whole lot of hope to live a better life and they still were trying to improve themselves that's amazing really.

I just want to be able to read so that I know how to live that way I won't be so afraid to die.

Yeah, and the risk they were taking, you know, that Harry Jacobs was taking and he was taking, you know, like we could be whipped, we could be beaten to death and they said we don't care let's do it let's do it anyway.

I just left her spirit, I tried to write my that book that story many many times over the years, this is embarrassing but I just couldn't emotionally I would just fall apart.

I think it's really cool how you framed the book about African American slavery in the United States. That was something that really stood out to me and a couple of the things that you'd quoted from these little sidebars that you have one was that there was a slave who wanted to learn so he wanted to learn how to read so bad that he so they could read the Bible and I think the quote was something like I just want to be able to read so that I know how to live that way I won't be so afraid to die.

and it really is like this African American slave story that tells the same unfortunately very similar story of what we have going on right now although this happened hundreds of years ago which is in a way things haven't changed and looking at some of the stats it's gotten even worse and and we'll get into that in a second I just I thought that was an especially hopeful story or part of the story coming from somebody who had lived a really hard life and honestly didn't have a whole lot of hope to live a better life and they still were trying to improve themselves that's amazing really.

that's why I turned to history because I thought okay if I don't have a curriculum what do I have I have history I have the original underground road I've Harriet Tubman I have Frederick Douglass and that's when I discovered Harriet Jacobs who becomes my hero in the end that's where I wrote about enslaved Steelers that's why I got into that history that's why I turned to them because there was no one else to turn to yeah we were kind of breaking ground on how to do these investigations so yes to your point it's a whole new game so we have to teach ourselves to be pedophiles.

the bulk of the book is drawing parallels towards slavery here in America in the Americas and the current slave trade right now so it's a fascinating reading itself it's just unbelievable how common the practices links to all of Tim stuff will be in our website in the show notes please do use our website links if you buy the book it does help support the show.