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Black History Month 2007

by Jude MacDonald | February 1, 2007

February is Black History month. This year, the world will also mark the International Day for the Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The United Nations’ General Assembly will hold a special commemorative meeting on March 26, 2007. The day marks the signing of an act that abolished the slave trade throughout the British Empire, which helped chart the course for its abolition worldwide.

This feature was first published on section15.ca's predecessor site CoolWomen.

  • External Links in this Feature

  • Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Multiculturalism – Black History Month
  • Black History Canada, Equity and Human Rights
  • The Blacks, Anti-Slavery and the Underground Railway, Library and Archives Canada
  • Harriet Tubman, Library and Archives Canada
  • Antislavery.org, The Fight for Freedom: 1807–2007: “On 25 March 1807, the slave trade was abolished in the British colonies. This was not the end of slavery, people could still own other human beings, but it ended the trade from Africa to the British colonies and marked an important step on the path to the total abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the liberation of those who had been enslaved.”
  • The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, “The story of GAATW is the story of women; it is a story of women building alliances across borders. This story also marks a moment of maturity in the feminist movement ...”

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