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Abuk Bak Macham

Abuk Bak Macham was enslaved at age ten after her Southern Sudan village was destroyed and her father killed. She ran away after ten years as a slave, became a refugee, and is a health-care worker in suburban Boston. Her story appears in Out of Exile.