Let My People Go [Paperback]

Cal Bombay (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 1998

In the war-ravaged African nation of Sudan, slavery is a way of life. Islamic fundamentalists in the north capture women and children-many of them Christian-in the south and sell them to other northern Muslim as servants and concubines. There they live on table scraps and are forced to convert to Islam. Their stories are devastating, yet their capacity for hope is an inspiration to the world. Let My People Go is the gripping, heartrending, sometimes infuriating first person account of a 1997 mission to return Sudanese slaves to their southern homeland, buy them, and set them free in the name of the Lord. It is a story you will never forget.

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About the Author

Cal R. Bombay broadcasts a daily commentary on 100 Huntley Street and is vice president of missions for Crossroads Christian Communications. He served as a missionary in Kenya and Uganda for seventeen years and lives today in Toronto, Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Multnomah Books (September 4, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576734595
• ISBN-13: 978-1576734599
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,488,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very moving book, May 1, 2001

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"brilliant_student" (Junction, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let My People Go (Paperback)

This book was recommended to me by a therapist. When I read it, I was amazed at all of the slavery that was going on in Sudan. It was a moving book, and very detailed on the hard ships being forced onto fellow human beings just because of their religion. It makes me want to get involved!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whats REALLY Going on between Khartoum and Bagdad?, December 4, 1998

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This review is from: Let My People Go (Paperback)

A lucid account which unravels the complexity of Africa's difficulties. This book is far more than another bit of mounting evidence of atrocities against prosperous Black Africans recently documented by the UN.

This book simplifies the daunting complexity of the Sudanese Civil War, and brings the reader a veteran african missionary's love for both Arab and Black African People Groups. The peacemaking missions between Moderate Arab muslims and Black Christians and animists are present paradigms for people of all races.

5.0 out of 5 stars Modern day abolitionists, May 20, 2005

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Alyssa A. Lappen (Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let My People Go (Paperback)

This is the story of the 1998 odyssey of the author into Sudan, the modern slave state in north Africa, to redeem slaves stolen from their homes in southern Sudan in the unrelenting process of Islamization and Arabization of the Black Christian South.

Cal Bombay traveled with Christian Solidarity International chief executive John Eibner and president Baroness Caroline Cox, who is also a deputy speaker in Britain's House of Lords.

Bombay describes in simple terms the rogue regime of Ahmed el Beshir, who had violently overthrown the previous government in 1989. Government forces, armed with helicopter gunships, send janjaweed jihadists into the south to capture and behead the men, while enslaving women and children. The only resistance comes from southern Sudan's splintered and sometimes corrupt Sudan People's Liberation Army.

He also discusses the process of redemption in which he was involved, whereby slaves were purchased from their Arab masters and set free in their Dinka villages. The latter, however, are the constant targets of genocidal raids and slave-taking.

As we see today in Darfur, the process of Islamization and Arabization continues apace. Cox, Eibner, Bombay, Charles Jacobs of the American Anti-Slavery Group and people like them are the only ones doing anything about it.

--Alyssa A. Lappen