Cannibalism, Torture and Assault on Portuguese Slave Ships.

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They don’t know cos they don’t read like most people.

Once you open history books - the first Europeans you’ll find on the coast of West/Central Africa are the Portuguese.
Most people won’t even watch someone else reading a book so forget about them reading it themselves. A lot of history is going to be forgotten due to ignorance and general apathy.
 

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In 1526 Afonso wrote two letters concerning the slave trade to the king of Portugal, decrying the rapid destabilization of his kingdom as the Portuguese slave traders intensified their efforts.

In one of his letters he writes:

Each day the traders are kidnapping our people – children of this country, sons of our nobles and vassals, even people of our own family. This corruption and depravity are so widespread that our land is entirely depopulated. We need in this kingdom only priests and schoolteachers, and no merchandise, unless it is wine and flour for Mass. It is our wish that this Kingdom not be a place for the trade or transport of slaves. Many of our subjects eagerly lust after Portuguese merchandise that your subjects have brought into our domains. To satisfy this inordinate appetite, they seize many of our black free subjects. ... They sell them. After having taken these prisoners [to the coast] secretly or at night. ... As soon as the captives are in the hands of white men they are branded with a red-hot iron.[7]
Afonso believed that the slave trade should be subject to Kongo law. When he suspected the Portuguese of receiving illegally enslaved persons to sell, he wrote into King João III in 1526 imploring him to put a stop to the practice.[14]

Afonso was also concerned about the depopulation of his kingdom through the exportation of his own citizens. The king of Portugal responded to Afonso's concerns, writing that because the Kongo purchases their slaves from outside of the kingdom and converts them to Christianity and then intermarries them, the kingdom probably maintains a high population and must not even notice the missing subjects.






For the love of European trappings. Your people aint always your people:francis:
 
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