Registration details can be found in the Journal Officiel.
Launched in 2004, the "Route des abolitions de l’esclavage" (Trail of the abolitions of slavery) is part of the international project « la Route de l’esclave » (The Slave Trail) supported by the U.N. and UNESCO on the duty of memory, and claims to be the declination of the Law of the 10th of May 2001 adopted by France, seeking the "recognition of the slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity".
The "Route des Abolitions de l'Esclavage et des Droits de l'Homme" connects five sites of memory associated with slavery and the struggle for its abolition by the pioneers of human rights: the people of Champagney, the Abbé Grégoire, Toussaint Louverture, Anne-Marie Javouhey and Victor Schoelcher.
The project was inspired by the World Conference against Racism held in Durban in 2001, and the Taubira Law of 2001.
The objective of the Route des Abolitions de l’Esclavage et des Droits de l’Homme is to develop exchanges and reflections between the sites of the network in order to open a dialogue and negotiations with the local and State authorities and the national and international organisations in terms of the design, the implementation and animation of various actions of promotion, event management, public relations and educational meetings related to the duty to remember the slave trade, the abolition of slavery and human rights.