UNESCO Marks International Day in Memory of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition.
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As the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is celebrated this Sunday, August 23, the island of Gorée, in Dakar Bay, Senegal, has become the world symbol of transatlantic slavery. A place of recollection and transmission, the House of Slaves perpetuates the memory of the Blacks who have been deported to the Americas.
Le Pais (Burkina Faso), Africa in Summary, August 23, 2026. As every year, the international community commemorated, on August 23, 2026, the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its abolition. As to commemorate the occasion, it was in Ouidah in Benin, one of the vestiges of the trade [...] The entry Africa. Tragedy of the slave trade: These doors without return that have marked Africa with red iron was first published in Latin…
This date promotes collective reflection on the historical causes, methods, and consequences of this tragedy; the UN agency highlights efforts to deconstruct discourses based on the concept of race and to value the cultural resistance of enslaved peoples. Source of original article: United Nations / Nações Unidas (news.un.org). Photo credit: UN. The content of this article does not necessarily reflect […]
Every 23 August we commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, a date that evokes the insurrection initiated in 1791 by women and men enslaved on the island of Saint-Domingue, today's Haiti. However, despite this day's rememorization, it is still necessary to recover memory and strengthen the idea that slavery remains one of the most heartbreaking events in the history of humanity, and that it is not a …
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