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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?
What happened
One of them escaped. She just opened the door and ran. She wasn't wearing shoes, it was October and bitterly cold in suburban Washington, D.C.. She was frightened, "and I told myself I really give up I don’t care whatever happen with my life right now I think I’ve tried my best running away…" She called the number of a Cameroonian man who visited her slave owner's house occasionally and seemed concerned about Rose. The man picked her up hours later. Another Cameroonian man found out what was happening. He took the victim into his home. She told him there were others just like her. Eventually, The victim was reunited with her friend and other young Cameroonian girls who had been enslaved.
Response and intervention
Local anti-slavery activists championed the young women's cause. There were court cases, convictions and freedom. The women lured to the US by the promise of education never did get to go to school. Today they are working and paying for their brothers and sisters to go to school in Africa. And one of them has started a family of her own. Local anti slavery groups Free the Slaves