Week 17 Wikipedia Trail: From James Madison Bell to

James Madison Bell

I began my final wikipedia trail with James Madison Bell after reading his powerful poem following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One thing I found interesting was that he attended the Cincinnati High School for Colored People, which is where he was introduced to the idea of abolitionism.

Abolitionism

From Bell's wiki page I clicked on the link to the page for abolitionism, which is the movement to end slavery. One thing I found interesting in this article was that the last country to abolish slavery was Mauritania in 1981.

Mauritania

Since I had never heard of this country before, I decided to look into this wiki page following the abolition page. Here I learned something interesting, that Mauritania had a military coup in 2005 that actually resulted in no loss of life, and in 2006 there was a 97% vote to make a new constitution which limited the amount of time that a president could serve.

Sunni Islam

I found it interesting that basically 100% of the people in Mauritania are Muslim, specifically Sunni Muslim. I have definitely heard of the Sunni before, but I must admit that I do not know much about the Muslim faith and their different denominations.