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Updated: May 14, 2025

Idolatry was forbidden, under the most rigorous penalties; and not a few fell martyrs to Zhinga's fiery zeal. A law prohibiting polygamy excited discontent. Zhinga, though seventy-five years old, publicly patronized marriage, by espousing one of her courtiers; and her sister was induced to give the same example.

Lydia Maria Francis Child - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

The Indians have strong untutored eloquence, so have the Africans. And where will you find an Indian chieftain, whose pride, intellect, and valor, are more than a match for Zhinga's?

Lydia Maria Francis Child - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

The priests, by numerous artifices, worked so powerfully upon the superstitious fears of the people, that they were prepared to hail Zhinga's return to the Catholic faith with joy. The queen, thus reconciled to the church, signed a treaty of peace; took the Capuchins for her counsellors; dedicated her capital city to the Virgin, under the name of Saint Mary of Matamba; and erected a large church.

Lydia Maria Francis Child - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans