Status Updates From O Fantasma do Rei Leopoldo

Each day 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…it is our wish that this kingdom not be a place for the trade or transport of slaves. - king affonso I p. 13

The nature of African slavery varied from one area to another and changed overtime but most slaves were people captured in warfare.