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• The Slave Route
• Transatlantic Trade
• Trade in the Indian Ocean
• Trade in the Arabo-Muslim world
• Trade in Asia
• Resistances and abolitions
• Commemorations
• Modern forms of slavery
• Pedagogical initiatives

The proclamation by the United Nations General Assembly of the year 2004 as International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition marks, on the one hand, the bicentenary of the proclamation of the first black state, Haiti, symbol of the struggle and resistance of slaves, and triumph of the principles of liberty, equality, dignity and the rights of the individual, and, on the other, the fraternal reunion of the peoples of Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe.

The contents of this exhibition have been developed to heighten public awareness of the unprecedented tragedy of human history recognized as a “crime against humanity”. It aims at mobilizing the international community, the academic world and civil society towards helping to promote a culture of peace in redressing the aftermath of this tragedy, in order to prevent new forms of slavery.

This exhibition focuses on the centrality of the slave trade in the making of the modern world.

Starting Date	20 Mar 2004
End Date	01 Jan 2005
Type of Exhibition	Online exhibition
Organizer	UNESCO Slave Route Project and the Schomburg Center

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