Mangaratiba
Traveling to the Sahy Beach, we visited the ruins of a 17th-century fort that was turned into a disembarkation port for illegal slave trade after 1830. Miriam Bondim, the Director of the Municipal Museum of Mangaratiba, guided us through the different structures of the complex which included slave quarters for the enslaved workers at the fort and a holding pen for captives who disembarked at the site. We also saw the remnants of a small canal through which water had been brought into the buildings and an iron bar that had been used to tie ships as they unloaded. Archaeological findings from the site, including shackles and other kinds of implements tied to the illegal slave trade, are currently housed at the Municipal Museum of Mangaratiba.
