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Re: Slavery,who was responsible?
Gadfly (gadfly@absinthe.ih.att.com.)
Thu, 16 Feb 1995 20:42:46 GMT
In article <MCGUFFIN.95Feb15165021@elmer.llan>,
Bruce McGuffin <mcguffin@ll.mit.edu> wrote:
>P.S. My uncle was in Saudi Arabia in the 1950's with the US
>Army. According to him (admittedly not an entirely reliable source)
>slavery was still practiced at that time.
Slavery was not outlawed in Saudi Arabia until 1962. I believe the last
nation to outlaw slavery was Mauretania, sometime in the 1980s.
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