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Benkos Biohó: The Runaway Slave Who Established the First Free African Town in the Americas in 1599

Domingo Biohó Also known as Domingo Biohó, was born in the 15th century into a royal family that ruled Bioho one of the Bissagos Islands off the coast of what is today Guinea-Bissau. He was kidnapped by the Portuguese Slave trader, Pedro Gomes Reinel a Portuguese merchant who was already the king of the slave […]

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Benkos Biohó: The Runaway Slave Who Established the First Free African Town in the Americas in 1599

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