‌The Little Africa‌
The Little-Known History of Little Africa in Rio de Janeiro's Port is about the history of over four million Africans who were brought to Brazil as enslaved during the 300 years of slavery in the country.
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‌The city of Rio was the world’s largest African slave market in the Nineteenth Century. One out of five enslaved of the modern era in the world stepped into Rio.During Rio de Janeiro's undergoing large-scale urban transformations in preparation for Rio's 2016 summer Olympics games, the port zone had been revitalized, and archaeological diggings recovered evidence of its past.  Moreover, some of the major findings have been in the subsoil of one of the area’s main squares, the stone structures of the Valongo Quayside, the busiest slave port in the Americas in the 19th century, as well as abundant material culture attributable to the enslaved Africans,  who arrived in Brazil. Therefore, Valongo Quayside Archaeological World Heritage Site not only represents the main African enslaved arrival port throughout the Americas, but it is the only one which has been materially preserved, on this side of the Atlantic. By the magnitude of what it represents, it stands as the most prominent vestige slave trade on the American continent.
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