The Slave Route Project

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The Slave Route Project is a UNESCO initiative launched in 1994 in Ouidah, Benin, which aims to promote intercultural dialogue about the Atlantic slave trade, and the history of slavery in general. ^[1]

Commemorations

Such commemorative days for slavery and its victims include:

• International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March) ^[2]
• International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (23 August) ^[3]
• International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (2 December)
• International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (2004)
• 2011: The UN International Year for People of African Descent ^[4]

Pedagogical initiatives

Slavery sites around the Atlantic

UNESCO with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, have created and maintains the "Slavery and Remembrance" project to "engage[] the public as well as experts with issues relating to slavery, slave trade, and ways in which both are remembered today throughout the Atlantic world." The following historic sites, memorials, and organizations related to the history of Atlantic slavery, include: ^[5]

• Afro-Peruvian Museum, Peru
• Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba
• Angerona Coffee Plantation, Cuba
• Archaeological landscape of the first coffee plantations of southeastern Cuba
• Barbados Museum and Historical Society
• Beausoleil Plantation, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, Jamaica
• Chateau de Joux, France
• The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, United States
• The Departmental Museum Victor Schœlcher, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• EUROTAST, Denmark
• Fidelin Kiln, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Fort Fleur-d’Epée, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Fort Louis Delgrès Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Ghana Museums and Monuments, Ghana
• Historic Camagüey, Cuba
• Historic Cienfuegos, Cuba
• Historic Havana and Fortifications, Cuba
• Historic Trinidad: the Urban Center and the Valley of the Sugar Factories, Cuba
• House of Negritude and Human Rights, France
• Hull Museums, United Kingdom
• Indigo Plantations of the East Coast, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• International Slavery Museum, United Kingdom
• L’Anse à la Barque Indigo Plantation, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• La Grivelière Plantation, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• La Mahaudière Plantation, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Les Rotours Canal, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Maison Abbé Grégoire, France
• Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project, United States
• Monument to Abolition of Slavery, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Municipal Museum of Guanabacoa, Cuba
• Municipalities of Regla-Guanabacoa, Cuba
• Murat Plantation, Guadeloupe (Fr)
• Museum of Aquitaine, France
• Museum of London Docklands, United Kingdom
• Nantes History Museum, France
• National Park Service Network to Freedom,
• Néron Plantation, Guadeloupe (Fr)
• Oak Alley Foundation, United States
• Periwinkle Initiative, United States
• Punch Pond, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Roussel-Trianon Plantation Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Royall House and Slave Quarters, United States
• Ruins of La Demajagua Sugar Factory, Cuba
• San Severino Castle, Cuba
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, United States
• Slave Burial Ground of Anse Sainte-Marguerite, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• The Slave Cell of Belmont Plantation, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Slave History Museum, Nigeria
• The Slave Route, Cuba
• The Slave Route, Guadeloupe (Fr.)
• Slavery and Revolution, United Kingdom
• Thomas Jefferson Foundation Monticello, United States
• El Cobre Town and Cobre mine, Cuba
• Tumba Francesa, Cuba
• Turks & Caicos National Museum, Turks and Caicos Islands
• Vanibel Plantation, Guadeloupe, Fr.
• Viñales Valley, Cuba
• Whitney Plantation, United States

References

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1. "Slave Route - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. 3 April 2020.
2. "Document officiel des Nations Unies". www.un.org.
3. "Records of the General Conference, 29th session, Paris, 21 October to 12 November 1997, v. 1: Resolutions". UNESDOC, UNESCO Digital Library.
4. "International Year for People of African Descent 2011". www.un.org.
5. "About - Slavery and Remembrance". slaveryandremembrance.org.
6. "Struggles against slavery: International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition", p. 12. UNESDOC, UNESCO Digital Library.
7. "Tromelin - Les Esclaves oubliés". 21 September 2004. Archived from the original on 21 September 2004.
8. "Trade in the Indian Ocean", The Slave Route Project, UNESCO.
9. "Struggles against slavery: International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition", p. 9. UNESDOC, UNESCO Digital Library.
10. United Nations, "Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children", Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, 2010.
11. Giorgina Alfonso. "UNODC - Human Trafficking". www.unodc.org.
12. "UNESCO Office in Bangkok: Trafficking and HIV/AIDS Project". www.unescobkk.org.^{[ dead link ]}
13. "Labour standards". www.ilo.org. 28 January 2024.
14. "Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse".
15. "Welcome Page". www.ohchr.org. Archived from the original on 2 December 2007.
16. "Transatlantic Slave Trade - Education - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org.
17. "Del olvido a la memoria | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 25 September 2019.

External links

• UNESCO Slave Route Project
• 2011 International Year for People of African Descent, UNHCR
• Slavery and Remembrance: Guide . . ., UNESCO and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation