In the shadows of a Shinto torii (gateway) in São Paulo's ‘Japanese’ neighbourhood rests the city's first burial ground for enslaved Africans. Recently unearthed, the gravesite is one of the few visible remains of the Liberdade neighbourhood's significance in São Paulo's ‘Black zone’. This article excavates the history of the nearby Remedies church, the headquarters of Brazil's Underground Railroad and a long-time museum to the enslaved. The 1942 demolition of the Remedies church, I argue, comprised part of a spatial project of forgetting centred on razing the city's ‘Black zone’ and reproducing São Paulo as a non-Black, ethnically immigrant metropolis.

在圣保罗的“日本”街区的神道牌坊（门户）的阴影下，是该市第一个被奴役的非洲人的墓地。最近出土的墓地是 Liberdade 街区在圣保罗“黑色地带”中具有重要意义的少数可见遗迹之一。本文挖掘了附近的 Remedies 教堂、巴西地下铁路的总部和一座历史悠久的奴隶博物馆的历史。我认为，1942 年拆除 Remedies 教堂是遗忘空间项目的一部分，该项目的中心是夷平城市的“黑色地带”，并将圣保罗重建为一个非黑人的种族移民大都市。