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Mauritania and Slavery: An Epidemic
Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane received his first slave when he was seven years old. It was the afternoon of his circumcision - his right of passage into early manhood - and he had the liberty to pick any gift imaginable. “It was as if I were picking out a toy,” he recalls. "It was as if he were a thing - a thing that pleased me."
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