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An incredibly moving story today - Mende Nazer is the woman whose story inspired the recent film "I Am Slave". Mende tells Jo Fidgen about her childhood in Sudan's Nuba mountains, her abduction and sale into slavery, the appalling and inhuman treatment at the hands of her slave mistress. She talks about her eventual escape and reunion with her family, and the difficulties of adapting to life as a free woman
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