Long Legacy Of Slavery: Mauritania
By Apioth Mayom Apioth
Slavery 's last fortification in Africa is Mauritania. According to a November 11, 2013, New York Times ' article by Adam Nossiter entitled 'Mauritania Confronts Long Legacy of Slavery, ' close to 140,000 or 4% of the total population is in chattel slavery: meaning it is passed down from one generation to the next. Centuries after the slavery was abolished in the Americas and Europe, Mauritania is still holding a dirty secret, right in our backyard.
Two days ago, I had a heated conversation with a Berber man, and not much to my surprise, he refused to accept the very existence of slavery in Mauritania. Apparently, he is one of the masterminds working behind closed doors to keep the system of slavery tightly concealed from the outside world. News reports are cropping up everywhere and yet the Mauritanian government is perpetually remaining reluctant to bring those who are responsible for this practice forward. When the victims of this practice try to speak up they are threatened with deprivation of food, even death. …show more content…
We are not talking about slavery in far-flung places like India, we are talking about enslavement in Mauritania, a desert sprawling country up north of Senegal. This incident will go down in history as the greatest failure of our generation because after a wrestler has beaten his opponent, he doesn 't bother looking too deep into his scratch after the competition. He always rises above that scratch and say that is nothing compared to what I went
Slavery 's last fortification in Africa is Mauritania. According to a November 11, 2013, New York Times ' article by Adam Nossiter entitled 'Mauritania Confronts Long Legacy of Slavery, ' close to 140,000 or 4% of the total population is in chattel slavery: meaning it is passed down from one generation to the next. Centuries after the slavery was abolished in the Americas and Europe, Mauritania is still holding a dirty secret, right in our backyard.
Two days ago, I had a heated conversation with a Berber man, and not much to my surprise, he refused to accept the very existence of slavery in Mauritania. Apparently, he is one of the masterminds working behind closed doors to keep the system of slavery tightly concealed from the outside world. News reports are cropping up everywhere and yet the Mauritanian government is perpetually remaining reluctant to bring those who are responsible for this practice forward. When the victims of this practice try to speak up they are threatened with deprivation of food, even death. …show more content…
We are not talking about slavery in far-flung places like India, we are talking about enslavement in Mauritania, a desert sprawling country up north of Senegal. This incident will go down in history as the greatest failure of our generation because after a wrestler has beaten his opponent, he doesn 't bother looking too deep into his scratch after the competition. He always rises above that scratch and say that is nothing compared to what I went