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On this day in 1791, an anti-slavery and anti-colonial uprising known as the Haitian Revolution occurs in Saint-Domingue, setting forth events indispensable to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. UNESCO designates August 23 to memorialize transatlantic slave trade. |