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The Last Country With Legal Slavery

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Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865. Mauritania kept it legal until 1981. It didn't make slavery a crime until 2007. Current estimates put the number of people still living in slavery in Mauritania between 90,000 and 340,000.

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