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WITH NOTE BRAZIL SLAVE CEMETERY OF PETER MUELLO - Ana de la Merced Guimaraes shows a slave branding stamp in a memorial center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005. Ana de la Merced Guimaraes was remodeling her 19th century home in Rio's old Gamboa district when laborers found thousands of human bones. Guimaraes discovered that her house was sitting on the Cemiterio dos Pretos Novos _Portu-
guese for Cemetery of New Blacks _ a crude buryiing ground for African slaves, that historians had thought was lost. (AP Photo/Renzo Gostoli)

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