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The fight against slavery in Mauritania

The story of our times told by the people who were there.

Mauritania has a long history of slavery 鈥� and a long history of struggle against it. Since the 1960s, slaves and their descendants have campaigned to end this practice, which is deeply embedded in Mauritanian society. In this Witness History, Josephine Casserly hears the story of Brahim Bilal Ramdhane, who was born into slavery in the 1960s and is now a prominent abolitionist.

People hold a banner reading "No to slavery" during a demonstration against discrimination in Nouakchott on April 29, 2015. Credit: AFP via Getty Images

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