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Mauritania, Sudan, Yemen and Nigeria still have slavery. Until the 1990s many more countries had legal slavery. And contemporary Psak Halacha, according to some shittas, permitted an Eved Knani in the context of a mechanism to allow a mamzer to marry without the resulting children being mamzerim. Some of those psaks seem to consider Dina D’Malchusa inapplicable when purchasing an Eved Knani. Other poskim do consider DDD applicable to this and only permit it in countries that have legalized slavery.