War and Slavery in Sudan

Slavery Has Been Endemic in Sudan for Thousands of Years. Today the Sudanese Slave Trade Persists As a Complex Network of Buyers, Sellers, and Middlemen That Operates Most Actively When Times Are Favorable to the Practice. As Jok Madut Jok Argues, the Present Day is One Such Time, As the Sudanese Civil War That Resumed in 1983 Rages on Between the Arab North and the Black South. Permitted and Even Encouraged by the Arab-Dominated Khartoum Government, the State Military Has Captured Countless Women and Children From the South and Sold Them Into Slavery in the North to Become Concubines, Domestic Servants, Farm Laborers, or Even Soldiers Trained to Fight Against Their Own People. Also Instigated by the Khartoum Government, Arab Herding Groups Routinely Take and Sell the Nilotic Peoples of Dinka and Nuer. Jok Emphasizes That the Contemporary Practice of Slavery in Sudan is Not the Result of Two Decades of Civil War, As Conventional Wisdom in the Media Would Have One Believe. Instead He R