International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition | August 23

(Grades 3-6) "In the late 1930s, Lawrence painted a series of pictures that documented the oppression of the Haitian people at the end of the 18th century and their eventual liberation in 1804."

Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright, feminist and abolitionist. She was an outspoken critic of the slave trade in the French colonies.

William Wilberforce was a leader of the English abolitionist movement that fought for the abolition of slavery until the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807.

The film "Juneteenth" celebrates the emancipation of slaves residing in Texas.

A school essay changed his life: Thomas Clarkson devoted his life to abolishing the slave trade and saw the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.

Frederick Douglass had a remarkable life: He was born into slavery but became a statesman. He was a powerful advocate for the Abolitionist and Suffragist movement and famous orator and writer.

Frances Ellen Watkins was a prolific author and poet who devoted her life to speaking out against slavery.

An abolitionist and Union supporter, Mary Richards Bowser became a black spy in the Confederate White House of Jefferson Davis.

Henry "Box" Brown mailed himself in a box to the office of abolitionist Quakers in the north to escape slavery. The trip took 27 hours.

Ellen and William Craft, slaves in Macon, Georgia, disguised themselves as a white male plantation owner and his servant to escape. In 1860 they wrote Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery.