Mauritania slaverys last stronghold

[Amun]

An estimated 10% to 20% of Mauritania’s 3.4 million people are enslaved — in “real slavery,” according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara Shahinian. If that’s not unbelievable enough, consider that Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. That happened in 1981, nearly 120 years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States. It wasn’t until five years ago, in 2007, that Mauritania passed a law that criminalized the act of owning another person. So far, only one case has been successfully prosecuted.

The country is slavery’s last stronghold.

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html

[Baluarte]

I thought Saudi Arabia had African slaves.
Guess I was wrong.

[Amun]

^^ They do, however the situation in Mauritania is not exposed in the media in the way it should deserve.

[Fortitude]

I always love how Lincoln's legacy is slandered.

He wanted to deport them back to Africa.