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Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
Slave trade activities produced a fair number of archival documents (written or graphic) which, often are preserved under unfavourable conditions in the countries having undergone this slave trade or in those having practised this phenomenon of man’s exploitation.
UNESCO launched the project "Slave Route" and set up an international scientific committee to examine the question of slave trade. Within the framework of the ‘Memory of the World’ programme of UNESCO, a project on slave trade archives was launched in 1999. This project aims at safeguarding documentary inheritance sometimes endangered of in order to make it possible to read again the history of a continent occulted during at least three centuries.
UNESCO launched the project "Slave Route" and set up an international scientific committee to examine the question of slave trade. Within the framework of the ‘Memory of the World’ programme of UNESCO, a project on slave trade archives was launched in 1999. This project aims at safeguarding documentary inheritance sometimes endangered of in order to make it possible to read again the history of a continent occulted during at least three centuries.
