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Valongo Wharf

Stone wharf in the port of Rio de Janeiro where between half a million and a million enslaved Africans were landed - the largest single arrival point of the Atlantic slave trade. Paved over and forgotten, it was dug up again during work for the 2016 Olympics, together with amulets and worship objects from Congo, Angola and Mozambique.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1811 CE mainstream
  wharf built source
• 1831 CE mainstream
  landing of enslaved Africans legally ends source
• 2011 CE mainstream
  rediscovered in excavation under a later wharf source
• 2017 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a World Heritage site source

Where

22.8971° S, 43.1874° W

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valongo_Wharf

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