Haratin, the mask of modern slavery/2

Mauritania. An Haratin boy trying to fish, a skill that most boys are taught at an early age. 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.