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The 1696 Portuguese Slave Ship 'Santo António' and Its Captives' Revolt
In 1696, the Portuguese slave ship Santo António left Luanda, Angola, bound for Brazil with over 400 enslaved Africans. But days into the Middle Passage, a coordinated uprising among the captives—many of them from the Kongo kingdom—swept the deck, killing half the crew. Lucas and Luna explore this little-known revolt, the ship's brutal aftermath, and the wider network of Portuguese slaving that linked Angola to the Brazilian gold mines. They discuss the role of Kongo Christian identity in organizing resistance, the legal aftermath in Salvador, and how this rebellion fits into a pattern…
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