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28-year-old Nzinga is captured in battle against a rival tribe, and sold to Portuguese slavers who bring him to the Captaincy of Pernambuco in modern-day Alagoas, Brazil. He escapes from his captors with the help of Anansi the Spider, helping to gather other runaways to found Palmares, a Quilombo (a Buntu word for a war-camp), or a community of escaped slaves.