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children playing in water in a cobblestone plaza in Salvador, Brazil
September 2, 2020

Salvador Splash

Children play in water in Salvador, Brazil. The joyous scene, published in September 1992, belies the history of the plaza, where enslaved people were publicly whipped for supposed crimes.
Photograph by Maggie Steber, Nat Geo Image Collection
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