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We cannot reckon how great the damage is, since the... merchants daily seize our subjects, sons of the land and sons of our noblemen, and vassals, and our relatives.... They grab them and cause them to be sold: and so great, Sir, is their corruption and licentiousness that our country is being utterly depopulated.
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Afonso I of Kongo
Born:
1456
Died:
1543
(aged 87)
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Mvemba a Nzinga or Nzinga Mbemba, also known as King Afonso I, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo in the first half of the 16th century. He reigned over the Kongo Empire from 1509 to late 1542 or 1543.
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