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UNESCO Implementing Mauritius Strategy

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UNESCO at Mauritius '05
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From Barbados'94 to Mauritius'05
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Retracing the slave routes

The slave trade, which lasted more than three centuries, is one of the darkest chapters of human history, which forged strong and ambivalent links between Europe, Africa and the Americas. Since 1994, the Slave Route Project has been exploring this common past.

Among the information and teaching materials generated by the project are draft trade maps illustrating the main slave routes and the changes in deportation flows from the 15-16th centuries to the 19th century.

Other educational materials and approaches have been developed as part of the Associated Schools Project Network, through the flagship Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project 'Breaking the Silence'.

Another initiative – the Slave Route Archives project – enables participating countries to better preserve original documentation relating to the transatlantic slave trade, to improve public access to these materials and to build up databases.

Many small-island countries took an active role in the observance of 2004 as International Year for the Commemoration of the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition, and over the longer term the annual observance of 23 August as International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. The day (23 August) and year (2004) mark the bicentenary of the uprising of Saint Domingue and the creation of the first Black Republic, Haiti.

Ongoing activities include the setting up in Haiti and other countries of museums on the slave trade and slavery and the display of a travelling exhibition Lest We Forget: The Triumph over Slavery, prepared in cooperation with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. Several SIDS have organized displays of the travelling exhibition, including Cape Verde, Jamaica, Mauritius and Sao Tome.

Forgotten Slaves is a research and educational project based on the enigma of the wreck of the slave ship l'Utile off the shores of Tromelin Island in the Indian Ocean in 1761.The project is organized and piloted by the French naval archaeology research group, GRAN, with the support of UNESCO and other bodies. It includes a strong educational and information dimension, with a system associating schools via the Internet and activities designed to heighten public awareness of slavery in the past as well as in its present forms.

In terms of an overview of UNESCO work in this domain, 'The Slave Trade: A Peculiar Cultural Odyssey' was the theme of the December 2004 issue of The New Courier magazine.

Start date 10-10-2005 2:25 pm
End Date 10-10-2005 2:25 pm

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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