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Dancers from the group Lemi Ayo pose at an Afro-Brazilian festival held next to the Valongo slave wharf, entry point in the Americas for nearly one million African slaves, on July 15, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Valongo site was designated Unesco heritage status on July 9 and the festival marked the distinction. The wharf was only recently discovered in 2011 during renovations in Rio's port district ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Brazil is estimated to have received four million African slaves in total, approximately 40 percent of the total enslaved people shipped to the Americas. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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