International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (23 August)
In its 1999 declaration to proclaim 23 August each year as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (transmitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly A/54/137), UNESCO sought to “increase awareness of the slave trade and slavery, its causes and consequences, including modern forms of slavery, to encourage solidarity with the peoples that have suffered because of slavery and to celebrate the African Diaspora.”
UN Resources on the Slave Trade and its Abolition
- The Slave Route Project (UNESCO)
- Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery UNESCO Slave Route Project and the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March)
Non-UN Resources on the Slave Trade and its Abolition
- Mémoire St Barth | Histoire de Saint-Barthélemy Comité de Liaison et d’Application des Sources Historiques
- Abolition of Slavery National Archives of the United Kingdom
- The Abolition of the Slave Trade Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
*Artwork - Banner created collaboratively at the art workshop at the Regional Youth Encounter in Trinidad and Tobago (2001)/UNESCO
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