The Holidays of Tomorrow

August 23rd, 2025 - A Day to Remember: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition On August 23rd, people from all over the world come together to commemorate a painful yet significant event in human history - the transatlantic slave trade. This day marks the anniversary of the 1791 slave uprising in Saint Domingue, Haiti, which paved the way for the abolition of the slave trade. In 1998, UNESCO designated this day as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition , urging countries to reflect on the horrors of slavery and the impact it had on generations of people. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Brief History Between the 15th and 19th centuries, millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands and sold into slavery in the Americas. The transatlantic slave trade, which involved the trafficking of enslaved people across the Atlantic Ocean, was a brutal system that exploited and dehumanized people of Afr...