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The 960 Kilometers She Walked Erased Her Own Name

The 960 Kilometers She Walked Erased Her Own Name

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A child is abducted into the Darfur slave trade, sold five times, and branded with 114 scars. She walks 960 kilometers, losing her own name.

The 960 Kilometers She Walked Erased Her Own Name

This episode explores the life of Josephine Bakhita, a woman who endured immense suffering and slavery in 19th-century Sudan. It delves into the circumstances of her abduction and the brutal realities of the slave trade that shaped her early life.

Person: Josephine Bakhita
Date: February 8, 1947 (death)
Location: Schio, Italy (death); Darfur, Sudan (birth)
Event: Abduction into slavery
Period: 1869 (birth) - 1947 (death)

- Josephine Bakhita was born in Olgossa, Darfur, in 1869, into a family with standing as her father was the village chief's brother.
- At seven or eight years old, she was abducted by slave traders from a field near her village, two years after her elder sister was also taken.
- She was forced to walk approximately 960 kilometers barefoot from Olgossa to the slave markets at El Obeid.
- During her enslavement, she was sold five times over twelve years, moving further from her home in Darfur.
- In the household of a Turkish general, she endured the scarification of 114 patterns on her body, cut with a razor and packed with salt to ensure permanence.

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