Haratin, the mask of modern slavery/3

Mauritania. AICHIDA SNABA, 42 years old, in front of her house at the village of Mbeidia. Haratins whose name literally means “those who have been freed” are descendants of the Black Moors, the historical slave population “owned” by the White Moors. They are women and men who still live in slavery, treated by everyone else as ‘property’: something only worth buying, selling, trading or destroying. They are deprived of freedom and find themselves hopeless.