Rio’s forgotten site where Brazil disposed of its enslaved Africans
20 years ago one Rio resident made a shocking discovery: skeleton after skeleton buried under her house. The house is now a shrine to those who died in Brazil’s slave trade.
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20 years ago one Rio resident made a shocking discovery: skeleton after skeleton buried under her house. The house is now a shrine to those who died in Brazil’s slave trade.
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