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Fight slavery’s 'legacy of racism' through education: Guterres

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For more than 400 years, over 13 million Africans were trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean. Secretary-General stressed that it was incumbent on everyone to fight slavery's legacy of racism. Teaching the history of slavery can help guard against humanity's most vicious impulses, he said.

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Fight slavery’s 'legacy of racism' through education: Guterres

Honouring the millions of Africans sold into slavery helps to restore dignity to people who were so mercilessly stripped of it, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message to mark Saturday’s International Day to Remember the Victims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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Combat the ‘legacy of racism’ of slavery through education: Guterres

He said the history of slavery is one of suffering and barbarity that shows humanity at its worst. “But it is also a history of awesome courage that shows man at his best - starting with enslaved people who stood up against an impossible force majeure and extending to the abolitionists who spoke out against

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