![]() Eventually we found SOS Slaves, an abolitionist group in Mauritania that was founded by a former slave owner and a man whose family was enslaved. As part of The CNN Freedom Project, a multi-year effort to report on modern slavery, we began talking with anti-slavery organizations and government workers who deal with Mauritania in hopes that we could get a sense of what life is like in this place where slavery is so shockingly common. Work on this story started 11 months ago, after we stumbled upon a few of those statistics. In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery. It didn't make owning a person a crime until 2007. ![]() ![]() (CNN) - On Sunday, CNN Digital released a special report called " Slavery's Last Stronghold." It focuses on current-day slavery in Mauritania, a West African country where an estimated 10% to 20% of people are enslaved.
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