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The Slave Trade in Angola: Queen Nzinga and the Imbangala
In this episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade, Lucas and Luna explore the often-overlooked role of Angola—the single largest source of enslaved Africans for the Americas. They focus on two figures: Queen Nzinga, the 17th-century monarch of Ndongo and Matamba who fought Portuguese colonialism and participated in the slave trade; and the Imbangala, feared warriors who allied with the Portuguese to raid for captives. Lucas explains how political fragmentation and the trade in slaves shaped Central Africa for centuries, noting that more than half of all enslaved people brought to Brazil came from…
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