International Day for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 2023

International Day for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 2023: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is celebrated on August 23. It marks the day when an uprising began in Saint Domingue, now called Haiti, on August 23, 1791, against the slave trade. Haiti was a French settlement and a center of the slave trade across Europe. The uprising led to a revolution against the rulers of the country.

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It is against this background that the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is commemorated on 23 August each year. It was first celebrated in a number of countries, in particular in Haiti (23 August 1998) and Gorée Island in Senegal (23 August 1999).

This International Day is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. In accordance with the goals of the intercultural project “The Routes of Enslaved Peoples”, it should offer an opportunity for collective consideration of the historic causes, the methods and the consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it has given rise between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.