Slavery Remembrance Day
August 23 is the day the world agreed to remember one of history's greatest crimes.
Slavery Remembrance Day on August 23 was designated by UNESCO in 1998 to mark the anniversary of the slave uprising that began on the night of August 22-23, 1791 in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), one of the most significant acts of resistance in the history of the transatlantic slave trade. The rebelli