The unintentional meta joke here is that I conflated two different battles: the Battle of Mbumbi which turned Kongo against the Portuguese, and the Battle of Mbanda Kasi, which happened a year later, in which Kongo finally routed the overconfident European power and freed thousands of slaves. I didn’t notice my mistake until days after I’d already filed…
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