Since 2006, May 10 has been National Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and Their Abolition.

The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, will preside in the afternoon at a ceremony in the Luxembourg Gardens, in Paris, for the occasion.

On France 24, several contents are to be discovered throughout the day.

  • Interview with Maboula Soumahoro, member of the national committee for the history of slavery and author of "Le triangle et l'Hexagone"

13:18

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  • In Guadeloupe, the Memorial ACTe, Caribbean Center for expression and memory of the slave trade and slavery, is the largest museum in the world dedicated to the history of slavery.

    Report.

01:53

  • Interview with Marie-Albane de Suremain, historian and author of "Teaching the slave trade, slavery, abolition and their legacies"

09:34

  • And our articles published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Taubira law

Commemoration of the victims of slavery: the Taubira law, 20 years later

"French slavery", between clichés and oblivion according to Rokhaya Diallo

Descendants of French slaves: "Finding their traces, trying to understand calmed me down"

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