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In the early 17th century, the Port city of Luanda on the western shore of Africa, in what is today Angola,

was a Portuguese colony established through the invasion and decades-long subjugation of the Kingdom of Ndongo.

In estimated 50,000 Angolans, many of them captured as prisoners of war, were shipped

to foreign ports as chattel slaves, often via the Middle Passage to the New World.

One ship, the San Juan Battista, carried 350 slaves bound for the Spanish colony of Viracruz.

But along the way, two English privateers attacked the vessel and seized some of the Africans aboard.

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