Pretos Novos Cemetery

WITH NOTE BRAZIL SLAVE CEMETERY OF PETER MUELLO - Ana de la Merced Guimaraes shows human bones and other objects founds in the foundations of her home, 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 _Portuguese 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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