Let My People Go [Kindle Edition]

Cal Bombay (Author)

Book Description

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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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

• File Size: 238 KB
• Print Length: 192 pages
• Publisher: Multnomah Books (April 13, 2011)
• Sold by: Random House Digital, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004G8P7GY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,588,280 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

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

By "brilliant_student"

Format: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

By A Customer

Format: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 Freedom is for Everyone April 23, 2012

By Laura H. Poole

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Let My People Go is a riveting first person account of missionaries secretly purchasing slaves' freedom during the 1990s genocide committed in southern Sudan. The book outlines the quest by the Arab Muslims in the north against the predominantly Christian south to wipe out their culture and convert them to Islam. After villages were burned, slave traders sold the women and children into bondage to the north Sudanese landowners.

The missionaries were an eclectic group from various walks of life who chose to travel to Sudan at their own peril. If the Sudanese government had discovered them, they would have been killed. As a former missionary to Africa, Canadian author and radio personality Cal Bombay takes you on a journey that fluctuates between heartbreaking and humorous with dangerous situations and tales such as when Mr. Bombay, admittedly overweight, pedals an old bike through miles of sand, up and down hills. Your pulse will race as the missionaries cross treacherous rivers, fly in unsafe planes, and sit through dangerous meetings with militant northern Sudan Arab slave traders to buy the slaves' freedom and return them to their homes in the south. The first person accounts from slaves are heart-wrenching. This book educated me and gave me a passion for the Sudanese people.

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