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Aïchanna Mint Abeid Boilil

"My name is Aïchanna Mint Abeid Boilil, and I am a thirty-year old descendant of a slave. I have experienced this condition since I was born...

"The conditions that we lived - myself, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, my father, my cousins, and my children - was very inhuman. We were like animals...

"When I understood that slavery is not right, for myself, I decide to live my freedom, and I came to Nouakchott with my youngest daughter and my second daughter."

Aïchanna's master had paired her with two different men, both slaves, who were the fathers of her children, but she no longer knew where they were. Aïchanna explained, "My master will not give me my children because my belly belongs to my master."

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