My stone of hope
Subtitle: from Haitian slave child to abolitionist
By: Jean-Robert Cadet, with the assistance of Jim Luken
Contributors: Luken, Jim
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780292728530; 9780292729292; 9780292738843
Subjects: Social conditions; Haitian Americans; Biography; Children
Description: Cadet tells the story of his youth as a restavek, a practice of using children as unpaid and uneducated domestic workers often subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.  He is an advocate for these children and argues that the practice has created damaged adults incapable of participating in a productive economy--From P. [4] of cover.