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As Brazil surges forward, a city facelift uncovers an ugly chapter of slavery's history (sun-sentinel)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- In a rundown part of Rio de Janeiro's harbor district,
archaeologists are digging up fragments of a history many Brazilians would
rather ignore.Up to a million men and women forced into bondage in Africa
emerged from the bellies of ships onto the Valongo wharf of what was once the
world's busiest slave-trading port. Today, as Brazil surges forward on the
world stage, scholars hope the trove of beads, bracelets and statuettes they
are finding will also prompt Brazilians to look backward with greater interest
at their slave heritage.The wharf that was intentionally buried in 1840 and
replaced by a beautiful new port is coming back to light as part of a $5
billion project remaking Rio's port region for tourism and business ahead of
the 2016 Olympic Games.Brazilians have long viewed their country as a racial
democracy free from prejudice and the institutionalized discrimination that
marked U.S. history."There was a real desire to erase Valongo, to erase this
history, to take it right off the map," said Tania Andrade Lima, chief
archaeologist of the dig, as she pointed out Valongo's rough, uneven stones.
"These were sidewalks made for slaves to ...

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