The United Nations chose August 23rd to celebrate an International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. It is to remind people of the millions of lives that were stolen through enslavement.
On this day in 1791, an uprising of enslaved Africans on the island of Saint Domingue (Haiti) began. It was a crucial event that would affect the eventual end to the European transatlantic slave trade.
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