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O teu sal, ó mar, são lágrimas de dor.

Image description: The image is a painting depicting the Atlantic slave trade. From left to right, we see human figures hanging from ropes, representing the enslaved people who died during transport. In the center, there is a ship with people inside it, suggesting the cargo of enslaved people. Below, there are more human figures, also hanging, representing other deaths during the journey. The background is yellow, with black strokes that seem to represent the sky and the sea. In the center, "ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE" is written in large, black letters.

All the beauty of a seaside city, surrounded by mountains in shades of green and blue, with white sand beaches and rivers that carry the ocean's waters in and out of itself, cannot erase or make us forget that this salty sea was both setting and protagonist in stories of death and pain.

Image description: The image shows a report on passenger embarkations and disembarkations at different ports in Brazil and Southeast Brazil. The spatial layout is linear, with vertical columns listing the main embarkation ports and their respective activities. The table is divided into two parts: the first, marked by a blue rectangle, contains data on Brazil's ports, while the second, highlighted by an orange rectangle, presents information on Southeast Brazil. The colors vary between blue, orange, and white, with numbers and text filling each cell.

If Brazil is the country that, for the longest time and on the largest demographic scale, received enslaved African men and women in the history of the diaspora, Rio de Janeiro was the largest slaving port on this coast. When the Cais do Valongo, located in the city's port area, was recognized as a World Heritage Site, this fact was the most relevant argument for its designation. In this city, captives from different African regions disembarked for centuries, and especially in the early decades of the 19th century, with a frequency and intensity not experienced in other parts of Brazilian territory, or even in other slaving ports in the Americas.

Image description: The image is an illustrated map showing regions where captives were disembarked during the period of the slave trade. The spatial layout begins with North America, highlighting the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, moving through Central America and South America before reaching Africa. The regions are marked by red dots representing different numbers of disembarked captives. In the lower right corner, there is a legend indicating the number of enslaved people in each region, ranging from 100 thousand to 2 million.

Port of arrival and starting point of a painful rebirth process, which also gave birth to this city, which emerged with all its Africanities, created out of the condition of captivity and contact with other peoples of other cultures in this land — indigenous peoples, Portuguese, immigrants from so many places. Rio Atlântico is marked by this suffering, but also by creation, the resistant and resilient affirmation of its protagonists.

Image description: The image is a family-tree-style diagram representing "Major massacres in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro." The spatial layout runs from left to right, starting with dates from the early 1990s through the late 2020s. The blue boxes contain the names of the massacres, such as "Salgueiro Massacre," "Jacarezinho Massacre," and "Maré Massacre." Lines connect these boxes, indicating the relationships between the massacres.