Maison de la Négritude in Champagney

The House of Negritude and Human Rights is a municipal museum since its creation in 1971 by René Simonin, a Champagney inhabitant who enearthed the Article 29 of the Champagney grievances book from the departmental archives of Haute-Saône, in which residents were asking that the king of France abolish black slavery, on the 19th of March 1789. The museum pays tribute to the people of Champagney, and is sponsored by Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of the Republic of Senegal. The House of Negritude in Champagney is part of the "Route des Abolitions" (Road of the Abolitions), a network connecting the important sites of the history of the abolition of slavery in France. This international project, supported by the UN, includes five sites in eastern France located on the “road of the abolition of slavery and the Human Rights”, launched in 2004: the House of Anne-Marie Javouhey in Chamblanc, the House of Negritude in Champagney, the House of the Abbé Grégoire in Emberménil, the Chateau de Joux, and Schoelcher’s house in Fessenheim (now reopened as "Victor Shoelcher Museum, his lifework").