Seen Commemorating the Memory of the Victims of Slavery on 23 May

Paris, 23 May 2025 (AFP) – Overseas Minister Manuel Valls urged Friday to continue the work of memory in order to "resist the forgotten", on the occasion of the National Day in honour of the victims of colonial slavery, abolished in 1848. "This day bears the memory of the difficult and sinuous path towards the abolition of slavery [...]

Friday, May 23, 2025, the city of Vitré will host a solemn ceremony in the framework of the National Day in Honour of the Victims of Slavery, instituted by the law of February 28, 2017. This time of recollection and transmission is part of the continuation of the great silent march of May 23, 1998 in Paris, where several tens of thousands of demonstrators, mainly from the Overseas countries, honored the memory of their ancestors reduced to slave…