International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 2023 : 23 August

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Category : Important Days Published on: August 24 2023

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International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is observed on August 23.
It commemorates the day when an uprising began in Saint Domingue, now called Haiti, on August 23, 1791, against the slave trade.
2023 Theme: “Fighting slavery’s legacy of racism through transformative education”
The day of the uprising was commemorated for the first time in 1998.
It was designated by UNESCO and was also observed in Senegal in 1999.
The international slave trade was abolished on March 25, 1807.

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