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While the island was owned at various times by each of the major European colonial powers active in West Africa, the LAT is wrong to describe it as the place "where millions of Africans ended their lives as free people and became captives of white men sending them across the ocean to an unknown future."
Coalition warfare also requires coalition policies on what to do with enemy captives.
Only half the captives survived.
One source refers to his “hog-tied” captives.
Ball marvels that he may possess thousands of black "blood kin" who are descended from his ancestors' captives.