Evidentia

The Mauritanian human rights organization SOS-Esclaves just sent me this testimony of a female slave, Oumoulkheir Mint Yarba, who escaped servitude in February 2010, and has now lodged official complaints against her former masters.

Exiled Mauritanian human rights advocate Mohamed Yahya Ould Ciré explains that some black slave women in his country are still forced to have children with their Moorish masters, and are still subject to mass rape and torture.

She was the widow of Mauritania:
A woman who wanted to press her mouth on this sea of ochre dunes,
Lie in these purple hollows and dream
Spread out her arms in the sand like angel wings,
Like spikes of fated desire,
Feel the heat and dry wind invade her body.
Listen to the hot sand tingle along the ridges,
Invent enchanting secrets, beautiful secrets worth savouring,
Drive from her mind any sort of finality.

This blog explains how some Islamic preachers use their interpretation of religion to maintain Haratin in enslavement

The blog by Mauritanian exile Mohamed Yahya Ould Ciré explains what is needed to eradicate the enslavement of (black) Haratin) by (Arab-Berber) Moors in his country

There are more slaves now than at any previous period in history. Slavery is a global industry generating $91 billion in annual revenues.