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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

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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

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Slavery sites around the Atlantic

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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]

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