Slave Routes

Remnants of an often hidden past, memorial sites, monuments and places linked to the slave trade and slavery bear tangible witness to that history and provide a memorial itinerary in the regions and countries marked by that tragedy.

In addition to their educational role in informing new generations of that painful past, these memorial places and sites also serve to establish memorial tourism activities relating to the slave route.

Preservation of memorial sites and places

The project encourages countries that wish to nominate sites of major importance to the collective memory and to the history of humanity for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.The Slave Route project has contributed to inventories such as:

World Heritage Sites in connection with slavery and the slave trade (36)

Africa (8)

• Royal Palaces of Abomey , Benin
• Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande , Cape Verde
• Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites , Gambia
• Forts et Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regionss , Ghana
• Ancient Ksours of  Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata , Mauritanie
• Le Morne Cultural Landscape , Mauritius
• Island of Gorée , Sénégal
• Island of Saint-Louis , Sénégal

Caribbean (10)

• Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison , Barbados
• Trinidad and the Valley of Los Ingenios , Cuba
• San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba , Cuba
• Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba , Cuba
• Old Havana and its Fortifications , Cuba
• National History Park, Citadelle, Sans Souci, Ramiers , Haïti
• Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda, United Kingdom of Great Britan and Northern Ireland
• Colonial City of Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic
• Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park , Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao , Netherlands

• Historic Town of Ouro Preto , Brazil
• Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia , Brazil
• Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda , Brazil
• Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaísode la ville portuaire de Valparaiso , Chile
• Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena , Colombie
• Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo , Panama
• Historic centre of Lima , Peru
• Historic Inner City of Paramaribo , Suriname

Océan Indien (4)

• Aapravasi Ghat , Mauritius
• Island of Mozambique , Mozambique
• Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara , United Republic of Tanzania
• Stone Town of Zanzibar , United Republic of Tanzania

Sites liés à la traite négrière et à l’esclavage en Sénégambie, pour un tourisme de mémoire  (Sites linked to the slave trade and slavery in Senegambia, for Memorial Tourism), Mbaye Guèye, UNESCO, 2005;

• Places of Memory of the Slave Route in the Latin Caribbean ;
• Route de l’esclavage et tourisme culturel en Afrique occidentale et centrale  (The Slave Trade Route and Cultural Tourism in Western and Central Africa);
• An Inventory of Sites of Memory in the Indian Ocean Region