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| | AFRICAN POLITICAL ETHICS AND THE SLAVE TRADE |
 | | Pacheco Pereira mentioned copper, ivory and cloth as commodities that were being exported by 1506, and Afonso's letter of 1514 pairs many of his gifts with "manilhas" of copper, sometimes in the thousands. |
 | | Njinga's initial letter, written within weeks after she assumed power and addressed to the governor of Angola, Fernão de Sousa, in 1624 is no longer extant, but it is clear from his summaries of it, that Njinga was prepared to deal in slaves. |
 | | In his summary, de Sousa noted that she told him that he should withdraw Portuguese forces from Embaca, a town founded by Mendes de Vasconcellos as a forward base for his illegal wars of the 1618-20 period, as had been promised. |
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