In 1585, Jesuit father Balthazar Afonso reporting to his superiors in Lisbon described a raid in Angola that he organized to confiscate or destroy the food supplies of a village deep in the interior resisting the expansion of the slave trade into its region:It happened that a father with his son were running away from our people, and seeing that he would not be able to save his son, he turned to our people and discharged as many arrows as he had, until he was killed, standing fast where he was, so that his son could hide.  Then the father Read more