Born in what is now Sudan about 1869, St. Josephine Bakhita was kidnapped from her family as a young child by Arab slave traders and was bought and sold multiple times, eventually being forced to walk to a slave market in Al-Ubayyiḍ in south-central Sudan. Over the next decade, she was passed from owner to owner. In 1883 she was sold to an Italian consul in Khartoum, who treated her more humanely. He eventually took her to Italy and gave her to a family to serve as a nanny.
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