Slavery’s last stronghold
March 16, 2013 12:39 PM   Subscribe

Mauritania’s endless sea of sand dunes hides an open secret: An estimated 10% to 20% of the population lives in slavery. But as one woman’s journey shows, the first step toward freedom is realizing you’re enslaved.
Excellent longform investigative journalism by CNN interviewing modern abolitionists, slave owners, people currently on the slavery continuum, former slaves, and government ministers while on an expedition purportedly to report on the science of locust swarms.
posted by Blasdelb (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Double. -- restless_nomad



 
Isn't it still legal in the US to enslave convicts?
posted by srboisvert at 12:48 PM on March 16, 2013


This is heartbreaking.
posted by Slothrup at 12:54 PM on March 16, 2013


Excellent longform investigative journalism by CNN

I understand all the individual words in that sentence, but...
posted by yoink at 12:58 PM on March 16, 2013


Seriously whodathunk it
posted by Blasdelb at 1:05 PM on March 16, 2013


This was posted almost a year ago.
posted by jacquilynne at 1:10 PM on March 16, 2013


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