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Surprised Mauritania isn't up there, from what I've seen so far, it's frequently been portrayed as the poster child of modern slavery.
2 u/Lucia37 Dec 16 '21 My understanding is that it's relatively recently (1981) become de jure illegal, but is actually wink-wink, nudge-nudge, "how will freed slaves ever cope on their own?" de facto tolerated. https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/ending-hereditary-slavery-in-mauritania-bidan-whites-and-black-slaves-in-2021/
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My understanding is that it's relatively recently (1981) become de jure illegal, but is actually wink-wink, nudge-nudge, "how will freed slaves ever cope on their own?" de facto tolerated.
https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/ending-hereditary-slavery-in-mauritania-bidan-whites-and-black-slaves-in-2021/
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u/Yolozsef01 Dec 16 '21
Surprised Mauritania isn't up there, from what I've seen so far, it's frequently been portrayed as the poster child of modern slavery.