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UNESCO2006,

J.

HARRIS(USA)

DEPORTATION FLOWS, 15th-16th Centuries 17th Century 19th Century

The slave trade represents a dramaticencounter of history and geography. This fourcentury long tragedy has been one of the

greatest dehumanizing enterprises in human history.It constitutes one of the first forms of globalization.The resultant slavery system, an economic andcommercial type of venture organization, linked

different regions and continents: Africa, the ArabWorld, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean andthe Americas. It was based on an ideology:a conceptual structure founded on contempt forthe black man and set up in order to justify the saleof human beings (black Africans in this case) as amobile asset: For this is how they were regardedin the black codes, which constituted the legalframework of slavery in the Americas.

The history of this dissimulated tragedy, itsdeeper causes, its modalities and consequenceshave yet to be better elucidated: This is the basicobjective that the UNESCOs member states setfor the Slave Route Project. The issues at stakeare: historical truth, human rights, development,identity and citizenship in the modern multiculturalsocieties. The idea of route signifies, first andforemost, the identification of itineraries ofhumanity, i.e. circuits followed by the slave trade.In this sense, geography sheds light on history.In fact, the slave trade map not only lendssubstance to this early form of internationaltrade, but also, by showing the courses it took,illuminates the impact of the system.

These slave trade maps are only a firstdraft. Based on currently available historical datagathered by Joseph Harris (USA) about the slavetrade and slavery, they should be completed tothe extent that the theme networks of researchers,set up by UNESCO, continue to bring to light thedeeper layers of the iceberg by exploiting archivesand oral traditions. It will then be possible tounderstand that the black slave trade forms theinvisible stuff of relations between Africa,the Arab World, Europe, the Indian Ocean, Asia,the Americas and the Caribbean.

The Coordination of the Slave Route Project

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