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314414 07: A slave woman sits outside a tent June 15, 1997 near Chegar, Mauritania. Over ninety thousand blacks remain enslaved in the Western African nation, despite a 1983 government edict abolishing the practice of slavery. (Photo by Malcolm Linton/Liaison)

314414 07: A slave woman sits outside a tent June 15, 1997 near Chegar, Mauritania. Over ninety thousand blacks remain enslaved in the Western African nation, despite a 1983 government edict abolishing the practice of slavery. (Photo by Malcolm Linton/Liaison)