Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane is a Mauritanian human rights activist one of the founding members of SOS Slaves.
He along with Boubacar Messaoud founded the human rights organization to abolish slavery in Mauritania.
At the age of 7, Abdel was presented with a choice of gifts and selected ownership of Yebawa Ould Keihel, a young dark-skinned boy, forging a bond that was disrupted by their forced master-slave dynamic and restrictions on their interaction.
This revelation spurred Abdel to actively denounce slavery and undertake menial tasks formerly performed by his slaves as part of his personal development.
Both men have been arrested and tortured in their attempt to convince both the slave owning class, and blacks, of the wrongness of slavery.