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International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

When is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition?

Every year on August 23.

What is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition?

UNESCO marks 23 August, the night in 1791 when enslaved people in Saint-Domingue, today's Haiti, rose up in the revolt that helped end the transatlantic slave trade.

Source: UNESCO ↗

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