thomblake comments on Can the Chain Still Hold You? - Less Wrong

108 Post author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 01:28AM

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Comment author: Barry_Cotter 13 January 2012 01:38:07AM 10 points [-]

The proportion of humanity held in slavery is probably the lowest it has ever been. And no human has been the legal property of another since the institution was abolished in Saudi Arabia in 1962. (I think. It was an Arabian nation in the sixties anyway.)

Comment author: thomblake 13 January 2012 05:06:30PM 5 points [-]

According to the Abolition of slavery timeline (linked to in the article), it's 1981 in Mauritania.