Last showing - "I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO" documentary film
In only 1 location: Electric Cinema - Shoreditch, 64-66 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DP,
Sunday 16th July 2017, at 14:45
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March
PUERTO RICO:
22 March
Emancipation Day.
INTERNATIONAL:
25 March
UNITED NATION's International Day of Remembrance of slavery victims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade in honour of those who experienced the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and died in slavery.
MAURITIUS:
1 February
Commemoration of the end of slavery.
February
SOUTHERN STATES (U.S.A.):
1 January
Emancipation Day is celebrated on this date in the Sea Islands of the Beaufort and Hilton Head areas in memory of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in the Southern states.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, HAITI:
Emancipation Day is also Independence Day
January
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY CELEBRATIONS
FRENCH GUIANA (France):
10 June
Commemoration of the end of slavery.
TEXAS (U.S.A.):
June 19
Celebration of the liberation of black American slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. This commemoration is known as ‘Juneteenth’ and in recent years has spread across all America.
June
FRANCE:
10 May
Commemorative day for the Remembrance of Slavery and its Abolition (Journée commémorative du souvenir de l'esclavage et de son abolition). First commemoration in 2006 after President J. Chirac voted in the Taubira Law in 2001.
COLOMBIA:
21 May
Afro-Colombian Day (Día de la Afrocolombianidad) is the annual commemoration of the date slavery was abolished 150 years ago (21 may 1851).
MARTINIQUE AND GUADELOUPE (France):
22 May and 27 May respectively
End of slavery memorial.
ST BARTHÉLEMY:
27 May
Abolition of Slavery Day
PANAMA:
30 May
Black Ethnicity Day celebration (Día de la Etnia Negra de Panamá) in remembrance of the abolition of slavery in 1851.
May
BARBADOS:
14 April to 23 August
A period including various celebrations in relation with the end of slavery.
MAYOTTE (France):
27 April
Commemoration of the end of slavery.
April
SURINAME AND CURAÇAO (Dutch colonies):
1 July
Memorial of the abolition of slavery followed in Amsterdam by the Keti Koti festival which means ‘broken chains’ in the Srana Tongo, the creole language of Suriname.
VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.A.):
3 July
Emancipation Day celebrates the abolition of slavery. Formerly a Danish colony.
August
ANGUILLA, BARBADOS, BELIZE, GUYANA, JAMAICA, SAINT LUCIA, SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO:
1 August
Emancipation Day. On August 1, 1985, Trinidad and Tobago became the first country in the world to declare a national holiday to commemorate the abolition of slavery.
BERMUDA:
1 August publicly
Emancipation Day unofficially
2 August.
DOMINICA:
August Monday
Emancipation Day.
THE BAHAMAS: Emancipation Day also called August Monday
as commemoration of the end of slavery takes place the first Monday in August.
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS (British territory):
August Monday Festival
Starts the first Monday of August for a 3-day celebration.
CANADA:
On the Saturday nearest to 1 August
Emancipation Day
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS: First Monday and Tuesday Emancipation Day memorial.
TURKS AND CAICAS ISLANDS:
7 August
Emancipation Day.
INTERNATIONAL:
23 August
United Nations’ International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, to remind people the tragedy of the transatlantic slave trade and in memory of the uprising of enslaved Africans on the French possession of Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti), on 22-23 August 1791.
September
OHIO—U.S.A.:
22 September
Emancipation Day.
ST BARHÉLEMY:
9 October
Commemoration of the abolition of slavery.
October
No known celebrations
November
INTERNATIONAL:
2 December
United Nations’ International Day for the Abolition of Slavery since 1995 previously known as World Day for the Abolition of Slavery when established in 1985.
PERU:
3 December
Commemoration of the end of slavery
THE REUNION (France):
20 December
End of slavery celebration
December
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