WATCH: How we brought the cause of black jihad slaves to Washington back in 1996 A generation ago, an abolitionist movement co-founded by Mohammed Athié, a Muslim from Mauritania, Simon Deng, a Christian from South Sudan, and Charles Jacobs, an American Jew, brought its case to Washington. On March 13, 1996, Jacobs, along with fellow activists from the new American Anti-Slavery Group, spoke at two panels on slavery in Mauritania...