
UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World’ to include records of French slaves
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The U.N. cultural agency has approved a new addition to its world heritage registrar with hundreds of records documenting people who were enslaved in the French colonial empire.
The Memory of the World program and register was set up in 1992 "to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, decay over time," according to UNESCO.
The documents date from between the 17th and 19th centuries, from places including the modern-day nations of Haiti, Mauritius and Senegal and the French overseas territories of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Mayotte, Martinique and Reunion.
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