A Mauritanian Abolitionist Visits the United States (The New Yorker)
By Alexis Okeowo , August 15, 2016 At the end of June, Biram Dah Abeid, an anti-slavery activist from Mauritania who has led that country’s most successful abolitionist movement, arrived in the United States. He had been here before, to accept the United Nations Human Rights Prize for the work …