A stele called 'les Colonnes de la liberté' ('The Columns of Liberty'), dedicated to the memory of the enslaved and the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, was officially ina
In 2005, the Comité Traite Négrière/Esclavage (CTNE) (Committee Slave Trade/Slavery) rallied and set up a petition which obtained nearly 2,000 signatures, in order to install a plaque in homage to Tou
A statue in memory of Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803), former slave who became governor of Haiti and fought for its independence, was inaugurated in La Rochelle (former slave port) on the 20th of May
La Rochelle was a major slave port, and its Musée du Nouveau Monde (Museum of the New World) is a site of memory of slavery. The museum was opened in 1982 by Michel Crépeau, Mayor of La Rochelle.
The commemorative plaque in memory of the victims of the slave trade was installed on the 4th of May 2013 in the city of Trélazé (49), at the foot of the Palmier de la Dignité (Dignity Palm tree) in t
