Mauritania: Slavery's last stronghold

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Channel: CNN

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Length: 22min 54sec (1374 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 18 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/SunglassesEmote]

I have a close friend who fled from here and recently got his US citizenship. Wild to hear about such a small place.

[u/irysh9]

"The slave that the American plantation owners dreamed of."

So you sold them the bad slaves? Africa, in it for the long con.

[u/ravangers]

little known fact, Mauritania has the most modern slaves per capita, second place is Haiti, and theyre mostly child slaves.

e: it looks like uzebekistan has been considered 2nd with haiti in 3rd, Uzbekistan has a history of bride kidnapping which is considered modern slavery, while haiti uses a system of giving children up for "adoption" in which they become servents for a family taking them in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Slavery_Index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery#Statistics

[u/Evil-Toaster]

It’s still a thing in lots of places, they just don’t like that word, here’s the vice a documentary about how some people get fucked over thinking they are getting a job, end up in debt to the employer and become enslaved.

[u/10inchFinn]

We don't have time for modern slavery we only have time to rehash old American slavery.

[u/Garyteck92]

Slavery is nasty, it creates such an oppressive social structure for black africans in Mauritania :

• The idea to pay someone for working made the Arab owner laugh ( scene in the desert " they are just cultivating food for ourselves and for us for free "
  • How the man was enslaved but did not even realise it ( the same way we say " it is just like it is " when seeing injustice in our life )

The problem is so deep , Arabs have enslaved black Africans even before 622 A.D and the system of enslavement/exclusion still exists in countries like Sudan ( the split of Sudan is a direct consequence of racial prejudice and enslavement ).

I think Boubacar the head of SOS slaves understand very well the problem of slavery in Mauritania.

This is exactly what Arab supremacy look like.

Edit: I change my comment to sound less like a jerk.

[u/Katydid_or_didnt]

And now S.O.S. Esclave probably can’t work in Mauritania any more. I hope CNN have organized for the NGO to have a name change subsequent to this documentary so that they can continue their work.

[u/teachmehowtokiss]

The percentage of prisoners that work for cents an hour in America is pretty close. Slavery is everywhere, we just rebranded it.

[u/[deleted]]

There’s a lot of shit like this I’m noticing.