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Considering slavery worldwide, from the eighteenth century to the present, this book features fourteen famous and little-known women who fought against it. Ellen Craft (an American slave who disguised herself as a man while traveling north in 1849), Harriet Tubman, Timea Nagy (who escaped sex slavery in 1998 Canada), and others are honored in the well-researched narrative. Bib., ind.