Virtual Exhibition: "Lest we forget"

The proclamation by the United Nations General Assemblyof 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 “crime against humanity”.

Its 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.