The prevailing focus on the communities of returnees from Brazil in the Bight of Benin, at the expense of research into the return journeys themselves, has also led to a reduction in the identification of their starting points and destinations. The port of Salvador was undoubtedly the place from which the majority of ships departed during the entire period of travel from Brazil. Nevertheless, several ships carrying groups of Africans and their descendants also left Rio de Janeiro for the African continent in the nineteenth century. Their destinations were not restricted to the West African coast; they also included the coast of the Congo-Angola region, in relation to which the history of these returns has not been sufficiently studied. There is a possible indication of notices attesting to the existence of returnee communities near the bay of Cabinda in travellers' reports cited by certain studies (Karash, 2000, p. 424; Lima e Souza, 2013), which undoubtedly merits further investigation.  
There is still much to research in terms of the trajectories of these extraordinary men and women who managed to break free of the chains binding them to captivity and go against the current of the slave ships. Their stories reveal as much about the African diaspora in the Americas as they do the dynamic Atlantic contexts of the African coast in the nineteenth century; the ways in which they have been narrated in historiography bring to light the striking similarities between the interests and disputes on each of the various ocean shores inhabited by Africans and Afrodescendants.