Haratin, the mask of modern slavery/1

Mauritania. A young Haratin expecting to pick the fish that accidentally fall from the boxes carried by the shermen at Plage de Nouakchott.  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.