Memorial

Since 2001, the Mouvement International pour les Réparations (MIR) has organized an annual 'Konvwa pou réparasyon' (Reparations march) in Martinique that takes place just after 10 May commemoration (France's national day for remembering slavery, the slave trade and their abolitions) and leads up to Martinique's national holiday on 22 May during which they recall the slave uprisings that preempted the arrival of the abolition decree in 1848.

In 2000, the association Centre d’Information, Formation, Recherche et Développement pour les Originaires d’Outre-Mer (Cifordom) organised a literary festival called FETKANN, or the 'fête de la canne à sucre' ('sugarcane festival') in memory of the history of French slavery and the sugarcane fields. The first festival was held in Grigny (Ile-de-France) and was supported by the departmental council of Essonne and the French Minister for the Overseas Departments.

In 1989, in honour of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, a square in the town of Massy (Ile-de-France) was renamed after Victor Schoelcher, the French abolitionist and father of the decree that abolished slavery on 28th April 1848. Also inaugurated in the square was a statue of Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian revolutionary who lead Haiti to freedom and independence against France and its system of slavery in 1804 to make Haiti the first black republic.

Following an interview on 2nd June 2005 with the ​Journal du dimanche, the historian Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, author of Traites négrières, essai d'histoire globale, was accused by the association CollectifDom of historical revisionism. In response to a question concerning the anti-Semitism of the (now discredited) comedian Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala, Pétré-Grenouilleau stated that, 'It goes beyond the case of Dieudonné.

The Collectif/Brigade Anti-Négrophobie has attempted on a number of occasion to participate in France's national day for remembering the slave trade, slavery and their abolition, which has taken place each year since 2006 on 10 May. On 10 May 2011, under Sarkozy, the Collectif/Brigade Anti-Négrophobie was forcibly expelled by police from the Jardin du Luxembourg.

On 23rd May 2013, CM98 inaugurated a monument in remembrance of their slave ancestors in Saint-Denis (a subprefecture of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, Ile de France), created Nicolas Cesbron. The memorial was inaugurated by Victorin Lurel, the Overseas Minister, whose family name was included among those listed.

On 23rd May 2013, CM98 inaugurated a stele honouring the names of 213 victims of colonial slavery in Sarcelles, a commune in the sub-prefecture of Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France, with a strong community of inhabitants from the France's overseas departments.