Painting depicting the rebellion on the night of August 22-23, 1791, in Bwa Kayiman, Saint-Domingue
August 23rd is the International Remembrance Day of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. On 23 August 1791, enslaved Africans on the island of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) rebelled and started the fight for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade that lasted from the 16th to the 19th century.
Approximately 17 million men, women and children were deported from their homes during the transatlantic slave trade, also know as the African Holocaust. Arthur Torrington (The Equiano Society) told Black Mental Health UK: "The plantations were no different from a concentration camp. People were routinely abused and brutalised and were forced to work in the most inhumane conditions. They could not run away from it and so they died there."
Breaking the silence: Learning About the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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