White racism. Will it never end?

[After I was captured] I went to this guy's farm, and I began seeing a lot of girls who been brought from southern Sudan and women working. I never had a chance to ask them what did [their captors] really force them to do, but I heard the story that a lot of young women were being forced for sex.

And let me just tell you this story, what happened when I first arrived on his farm. Giemma, who was my master, took me to his home. He actually called the whole family to meet me. And his three children had sticks. And they started beating me. And they were chanting to say abeed, abeed. That is Arabic [for] black slave—that was my welcome.

After kids got tired, Giemma told me to follow him to show me where I'm going to be sleeping. There was a little shelter close to the animals, a lot of horses and a lot camels and a lot of cows. And I had to stay there, and he sent his children to come whenever they wanted to amuse themselves by saying abeed or beating me. And I remember his wife, too, she come and stood in front of me and said that if my husband would allow me, I would shoot you.

This was a Muslim family. Was their Islam important to them?

Very, very important. . . . [T]hey forced me to [pray], and I accepted because he scared me by saying to me if I couldn't, he would hurt me.

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I believe that one of the main conflicts in my country is they want to make everyone Muslims in the country. Number two is economic because we have oil in southern Sudan. And number three is racism because people look different color in my country. In the south they are very dark skins. And in the north they are lighter skin. They consider themselves white.

"The Dick Staub Interview: Francis Bok Is Proof that Slavery Still Exists." Christianity Today, 10/1/03.