[HIGHLIGHTS] Former slave port, Bordeaux prey to a duty of memory disputed between activists, elected officials and historians

After decades of silence, the city is looking at its responsibility in the history of the French slave trade. Some 500 slave expeditions left the Gironde capital for Africa between 1672 and 1837.

The Aquitaine Museum in Bordeaux to devote rooms to Atlantic trade in the 18th century and the slave trade, on the recommendations of a reflection committee instigated by the town hall. And 2019 for the inauguration on the banks of the Garonne of a statue of Modeste Testas, an African slave deported to Santo Domingo.