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    Seif Kousmate's Photos of Slavery in Mauritania

    When Seif Kousmate, a photographer based in Morocco, set out to capture the everyday lives of the country’s Haratin people, Mauritanian authorities arrested, jailed and interrogated him.
    by Marie Solis Jun 22, 2018 1 minute
    A LEGACY OF SERVITUDE: Aichetou Mint M'barack with her daughter and grandchildren. As a child, she was taken from her mother and given to a family. During her time in captivity, she had eight children; two were taken and given to other masters. All were eventually freed with the help of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement. The family now lives on the outskirts of Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania.
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    The Mauritanian government doesn’t want you to know that 10 to 20 percent of its people are enslaved. Officials don’t want you to think about how the West African country was the last

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