Records of French slaves inscribed on UN world heritage register

Protesters chant anti-France slogans in 2015. Several hundred documents and items revealing the names and other details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire is being added to Unesco’s Memory of the World register (Dieu Nalio Chery/AP File/PA)

Several hundred documents and items revealing the names and other details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire are being added to Unesco’s Memory of the World register.

The latest addition, which the UN cultural agency approved last week, marks the first time France has pushed for the inscription of documents on the Unesco register that were previously archived in France’s present-day overseas territories.