Mexico Square Declared a Site of Memory of Slavery Prensa Latina
go to original August 24, 2016

For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the tragic transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. (Abolition News Network)

A commemorative plaque was placed on the entry of the Church of Santo Domingo, in the historic center of Mexico City, as part of the ceremonies for the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.

Is an act of memory and response to the historical debt with the African people and Afro-descendants, said Diego Prieto, technical secretary in charge of the General Directorate of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH, in Spanish)?

Nuria Sanz, director and representative of the Office of UNESCO in Mexico, and Prieto led this event.

The anthropologist stressed that the Ministry of Culture through the INAH is pleased to participate in the actions of the International Slave Route Project: resistance, freedom and heritage of UNESCO.



It was announced that with the designation of this place in the Santo Domingo Square, it would begin a national project to continue identifying Places of Memory of Slavery throughout the Mexican territory.

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