On 23rd May 2008, CM98 created an itinerant memorial that displays the lists of names that were given to the newly-freed population following the abolition of slavery in 1848. Between 1848 and 1862, French officials renamed some 160,000 people in Guadeloupe and Martinque, often creating names that attested to the contempt in which these newly formed citizens were held by the state. Among the names are anagrams of other names, the names of flora and fauna, and names with unpleasant connotations, such as those connected to devilry. The itinerant memorial lists some 25 857 family names and was displayed before the Sénat and the basilica at Saint-Denis (Paris). This not only served to offer Antilleans a sense of their geneaological heritage, but also marked the 10th anniversary of 23rd May 1998 when some 40,000 men and women (mostly Antilleans) marched across Paris (from République to Nation) to call for slavery to be recognized as a crime against humanity during the 1998 sesquicentenary of the abolition of slavery.