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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Exhibitions Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over SlaveryFrom March 18, 2004 through September 30, 2004 See related Online Exhibition.
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition, and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has elected Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery to be its official travelling exhibit, highlighting the triumph of the principles of liberty, equality, and the dignity of human rights. Lest We Forget documents and interprets the obstacle-ridden but life-affirming experiences of enslaved African peoples in the Americas, and examines the extraordinary capacity of human beings to confront and transcend oppression, and to triumph over state-sanctioned injustice. |
