International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Date in the current year: August 23, 2024

This remembrance day was adopted by UNESCO's General Conference on July 29, 1998. The first celebration took place on August 23, 1998 in Haiti, and a celebration in Senegal followed the next year. Later other countries, including European countries that had had slave colonies, followed the example. Among these countries are France and Britain. For instance, since 2004 Slavery Remembrance Day has been observed in Liverpool. And the Museum of Printed Textiles in Mulhouse, France, annually organized remembrance events on August 23.

August 23 is an important day in the history of slave trading. In 1791, during the night of August 22 to August 23 slaves Initiated an uprising on the island of Saint Dominigue (present-day Haiti). This uprising set forth the events that became the major factor in the abolition of transatlantic slate trade in the word.