My Stone of Hope: From Haitian Slave Child to Abolitionist

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There are 27 million slaves living on the planet today—more 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 in the community as restavek (“staying with”), is so widespread that one in ten Haitian children is caught up in this form of slavery.

Jean-Robert Cadet used to be 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 getting rid of 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 only one amongst many problems that Haiti faces as the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation. Moderately, he argues that the systematic abuse of such a lot of of its children is Haiti’s fundamental problem, because it creates damaged adults who seem incapable of governing the country justly or managing its economy productively.

For everyone concerned about the fate of Haiti, the welfare of children, and the freedom of people around the world, My Stone of Hope sounds an impossible to resist call to action.

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