Fourteen thousand. This is the estimated number of Sudanese men, women and children who were kidnapped and forced into slavery between 1986 and 2002. (Agnes Scott College, http://prww.agnesscott.edu/alumnae/p_maineventsarticle.asp?id= 260) Mende Nazer is one of those 14,000. The thing that sets her apart is that she ran away and had the courage to tell her story to the world. Slave: My True Story, Mende Nazer's memoir, describes how courage and the will to live can triumph over oppression and slavery, showing the world that slavery did not end in 1865, but is still a global problem. In Slave: My True Story Story, Nazer personally and vividly recounts his life, which began in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan. His early life with the Karko tribe in a rural and isolated area were very simple and happy. Nazer grew up in a family that, by Nuba standards, was considerably wealthy. She was the youngest of five children, with two brothers and two sisters. Nazer, along with his brothers and a sister, attended a government-run Arab school. He experienced what was described as “an idyllic childhood” with no worries about food, shelter or social comforts. However, in the spring of 1993, everything changed. At the age of twelve or thirteen (the Nuba do not record birth dates) Nazer was kidnapped during a raid on her village. neck…He pulled me to my feet and began to march me through the village…We reached the edge of the forest under the trees there were about thirty other children huddled together” (Nazer 97).Nazer, along with the other children. they were taken to a converted military base run by Arab militiamen loyal to Sudan's Islamic government. “…a camp – composed of twenty or more khaki green tents, arranged in rows. We approached the camp in a long line and were greeted at the gates by a group of men in military uniforms” (Nazer 105). It was then sold to a wealthy Arab family in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, for the equivalent of $150. (estimated). She worked as a slave for the family for seven years, from 1993 to 1999, and was then sent to London, England, to work for the family's relatives. She was a slave in London from 1999-2000.