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Ball marvels that he may possess thousands of black "blood kin" who are descended from his ancestors' captives.
Only half the captives survived.
Flowing in and out of 80 arched passageways known as vomitoria, aristocrats and plebs alike came to see blood: bears, lions, tigers, and leopards starved into fighting each other and against criminals, war captives, and (according to some historians) Christians.
One source refers to his “hog-tied” captives.
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."