UNESCO initiative
"Whipped Gordon" , HarpersThe Slave Route Project is aUNESCO initiative launched in 1994 inOuidah ,Benin , which aims to promoteintercultural dialogue about theAtlantic slave trade , and thehistory of slavery in general.[ 1]
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 UNInternational Year for People of African Descent [ 4] Pedagogical initiatives [ edit ] Slavery sites around the Atlantic [ edit ] UNESCO with theColonial 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 , PeruAlejandro de Humboldt National Park , CubaAngerona Coffee Plantation , CubaArchaeological landscape of the first coffee plantations of southeastern Cuba Barbados Museum and Historical SocietyBeausoleil Plantation , Guadeloupe (Fr.)Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park , JamaicaChateau de Joux , FranceTheColonial Williamsburg Foundation, United States The DepartmentalMuseum 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, GhanaHistoricCamagüey, Cuba HistoricCienfuegos, Cuba HistoricHavana 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 KingdomIndigo Plantations of the East Coast, Guadeloupe (Fr.) International Slavery Museum , United KingdomL’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 , FranceMuseum of London Docklands , United KingdomNantes History Museum , FranceNational Park Service Network to Freedom, Néron Plantation, Guadeloupe (Fr) Oak Alley Foundation , United StatesPeriwinkle Initiative, United States Punch Pond, Guadeloupe (Fr.) Roussel-Trianon Plantation Guadeloupe (Fr.) Royall House and Slave Quarters, United StatesRuins of La Demajagua Sugar Factory, Cuba San Severino Castle, Cuba Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture , United StatesSlave 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 StatesEl Cobre Town andCobre mine , CubaTumba Francesa, Cuba Turks & Caicos National Museum, Turks and Caicos Islands Vanibel Plantation, Guadeloupe, Fr. Viñales Valley, Cuba Whitney Plantation , United States[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16] [ 17]
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