It is in this context that the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is commemorated on August 23 each year. It was celebrated for the first time in several countries, notably in Haiti (August 23, 1998) and on the island of Gorée in Senegal (August 23, 1999).
This International Day aims to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. In accordance with the objectives of the intercultural project “The Routes of Enslaved Peoples”, it must offer the opportunity for collective reflection on the historical causes, modalities and consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it gave rise. place. tensions have been created between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.
