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The Slave Trade in Luanda: Angola's Fortified Factory
In this episode, Lucas and Luna turn their focus to Portuguese Angola, the single largest source of enslaved people for the Atlantic trade. They start at Luanda Island, where in 1617 Governor Luis Mendes de Vasconcelos built a fortress that became the hub of a brutal system. Lucas explains how the Portuguese allied with the Imbangala warlords, mercenaries known for their ritual cannibalism and military ferocity, to wage devastating wars in the interior, capturing people to be sold at the coast. The conversation covers the role of the Mbundu kingdoms, the sack of the kingdom of Ndongo under…
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