Biram Dah Abeid, the Man Fighting Slavery in Mauritania – Biram Dah Abeid, l’homme combattant l’esclavage en Mauritanie(borgenproject)
On an April afternoon in 2012, Biram Dah Abeid held up books of Islamic legal interpretations. A large crowd in front of him watched as he dropped the books into a large box and set them on fire. As the books disintegrated, a tiny part of the legacy of slavery …