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Pillory, ( Pelourinho ), where criminals and fugitive black slaves were exhibited and punished, decorated with the Portuguese empire's weapons - In the background the Saint Mathias Church ruins ( Igreja de Sao Mathias ), at Mother Church Square, Alcantara, Maranhao State, northeastern Brazil - the city was declared by the Brazilian government as a National Historical Patrimony because of the ruins of the colonial and imperial period.