MER Article The Politics of Commemorating the Abolition of Slavery in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia In 2019, eight years after the Arab Spring uprisings, President Béji Caïd Essebsi declared that Tunisians would commemorate the abolition of slavery on January 23 each year. It was on this date in 1846 that the then-governor of Ottoman Tunisia, Ahmad Bey, signed a decree authorizing enslaved Black p M’hamed Oualdi • 9 min read
