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What is the UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project?

April 26, 2017Education project slave Trade Transatlantic UNESCO

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What is the UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project?

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The ASPnet Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project (TST) was launched din 1998 to “break the silence” surrounding the Transatlantic Slave Trade and to enable young people to fully comprehend the past, understand the present, and prepare for a better future together in a world free of all types of stereotypes, enslavement, injustice, discrimination, and prejudice. The TST project aims to improve the teaching of history by telling the whole story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The project emphasizes the significance of the TST, the suffering it caused and its social, cultural, and economic impact on the Atlantic World. It is the first international endeavor to mobilize schools in Africa, the Americas/Caribbean, and Europe to develop new educational approaches while promoting an intercultural dialogue between young people. (TST-UNESCO website) What is UNESCO TST-USA? It was founded in 2000 as part of an education project designed to help school teachers learn how to teach the slave