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Haiti holds an early observance of the Slave Trade Remembrance Day

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UNESCO

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Haiti was among the first places to mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. The observance centered the Haitian Revolution’s place in Atlantic history and treated remembrance as a public and political act.