Monday, September 17, 2012

Brazil Facing Skeletons of its Past: Give African Slaves Semblance of a Centuries Overdue Proper Burial

Brazil Facing Skeletons of its Past: Give African Slaves Semblance of a Centuries Overdue Proper Burial

Wearing full-skirted white dresses and turbans, the religious leaders chanted blessings and sprinkled water on the concrete floor of a modest house near this city’s port. Beneath their feet were the remains of tens of thousands of African slaves who had died shortly after arriving from their horrific sea voyage. The bodies had been dumped [...]

Brazil Facing Skeletons of its Past: Give African Slaves Semblance of a Centuries Overdue Proper Burial
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