International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

23rd August

‘The skin of every human being contains a slave.’

Notebook, Mark Twain

‘The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder’s moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.’

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain