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Afro-Colombian Day or Día de la Afrocolombianidad is an annual commemoration of the abolishment of slavery in Colombia on May 21 1851. May 21 is also the day of the first established free town in the America’s Palenque de San Basilio. Afro-Colombian Day was first celebrated in 2001.Afro-Colombian Day hopes to show the natives the importance of the Afro population and the effect they have on the history of Colombia.