The only country in the world that still has not abolished slavery is Mauretania. Swedish TV4 will soon do a feature on this country's inhuman tradition.
Estimates of the number of black Africans enslaved in Mauritania range from 100,000 to as many as one million. Chattel slavery, in which one person is owned as another's property, has existed in Mauritania for 800 years-born out of racism and a skewed version of Islamic fundamentalism. Slaves are raised to believe that serving their Arab-Berber masters is a religious duty, and most remain in bondage their entire lives.
We will soon enter 2007...
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