House of Anne Marie Javouhey in Chamblanc

It is possible to visit the family home of Anne Marie Javouhey in Chamblanc. Sister Javouhey went to Mana, in French Guiana, where she freed 185 slaves in 1838, ten years before the abolition of slavery in 1848. The house of Anne-Marie Javouhey in Chamblanc forms 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").