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1723 Letters patent
Exhibition at Villèle museum
19th December 2023 – 31st March 2024

20 désanm (20th December)
Public holiday on Reunion island
1983-2023

My Name is February
Exhibition at the Villèle Museum from 18th December 2023 to 30th October 2024

The melody of water,
Barefoot along the footpaths,
Fugitive, I am reborn

In the Spotlight
Effects of colonial slavery on the role of the father on Reunion Island

Symposium ‘The slave, a human being’
22nd to 25th November 2023

In the Spolight
Another vision of resistance by slaves during the final century of slavery
(1750-1848)

Inauguration of the Intercontinental Slavery Museum in Port-Louis (Mauritius)

In the spotlight
The Church, the State and Slavery

In the spotlight
Maison Rouge in Saint-Louis: from Desforges-Boucher to the Bénard family (1722-1971)

In the spotlight
The wills of Madame Desbassayns

In the spotlight
Between oblivion and memory: what role can be played by History?

The slavery registers of the French colonial empire listed as UNESCO world heritage

In the spotlight
Intergenerational transmission of violence in filiation links

10th May 2023.
The Villèle historical museum takes part in Time of memory

“Museums faced with slavery: the challenge of reconciling accounts of a common heritage”
Symposium, 12th to 16th April 2023

The Internet ‘Slavery Portal’ in Reunionese Creole

2022 edition

’EDMOND…’
Exhibition at the Villèle Museum
as from 19th December 2022

Seminar ‘History, memories and heritages of slavery’
5th and 6th December 2022

Conference “New approaches to slavery”
26th November 2022 – Villèle Museum

Exhibition: ‘The archaeology of colonial slavery’ at the Villèle museum

A unique Reunionese heritage
‘Loisirs’. Short stories of Bourbon island by Auguste Logeais

International conference. “Slavery. From slave-trades to emancipations: thirty years of historical research”

Homage to a great Maloya musician Françoise Guimbert (1945-2022)

4th edition of the Great 20th December Celebration

A multilingual website to open up to the world

Compensation paid out to slave owners recorded in a database

Atlas of the estate and slavery on Reunion island

Homage to the historian Marcel Dorigny (1948-2021)

20 years of the French law entitled ‘Loi Taubira’. The Departmental Council of Reunion announces the creation of an Atlas of Slavery for 2023

Furcy, the trial for freedom

Homage to the historian Hubert Gerbeau (1937-2021)

Great digital 20th December celebrations at the Villèle museum

Exhibition « Slavery in Bourbon »
Villèle Museum
December 20th, 2020 - March 28th, 2021

Conference ‘Slavery. New approaches ’ November 28, 2020 – Villèle Museum

The European Parliament recognises slavery as a ‘crime against humanity’

‘The Strange Story of Furcy Madeleine: 1786-1856’
an exhibition at the Villèle Museum
December 11th, 2019 - April 30th, 2020

Comparative views about slavery

Portrait Gallery

Essential Info

May 23rd,
a national day in homage to the victims of colonial slavery

Tribute to historian Claude Wanquet (1937-2020)

170th anniversary
of the abolition of slavery
December 2018 - December 2019
a full year of commemoration

A new name for
Pas de Bellecombe

170th anniversary of
the abolition of slavery
1848 - 2018

Le jour de l’Abolition : Abolition Day
Exhibition at the Léon Dierx Museum
27th April – 15th September 2019

A digital portal for the Villèle museum

Kayamb, bob, roulèr : new acquisitions by the Museum

Four “heritage and creation” artists’ residencies as part of the commemoration

The website of Villèle historical Museum, the estate and slavery

Galerie des portraits, an exhibition by junior high school pupils

Understanding the history of slavery through images www.iconotouch.org

A mobile phone app Kikoné ?

Creation of research grants to treat the topics of the slave trade, slavery and abolition

Installation of a work of art Les Trois Frères (The Three Brothers) Sandrine Plante Rougeol

Pièta By William Zitte and Antoine du Vigneaux

Installation of work of art Bann Maronèr (Fugitive Slave) Nathalie Maillot & Nelson Boyer

International conference
“Slavery, a subject of history, the challenge of memory”
28 November to 1st December 2018

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