No other city in the New World was so closely associated with the exploitation of African slaves as Rio de Janeiro, where the city's elite, among them Portuguese merchants and colonialists, made a veritable fortune.
More than two million African men, women and children who were shipped into slavery in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries landed in the Portuguese colonial empire of Brazil, accounting for more than half of all slaves recorded during that time.
Now a small group of experts are conducting a reappraisal of the black history in Rio. But not everyone is ready to revisit the famed city's troubled past.
World in Progress previously aired this feature by reporters Anne Herrberg and Joao Soares, and presented by Elliot Douglas on October 5, 2022.