Chikunda
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chikunda-178-16810326
title:
Chikunda
text:
Chikunda, sometimes rendered as Achicunda, was the name given from the 18th century onwards to the slave-warriors of the Afro-Portuguese estates known as Prazos in Zambezia, Mozambique. They were used to defend the prazos and police their inhabitants. Many of the chikunda were originally chattel slaves, raised to the status of soldiers, traders or administrators of parts of the prazo as a client or unfree dependent. The prazo system based on agriculture broke down as a result of drought and dise
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Afro-Portuguese slave soldiers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikunda
date created:
2017-12-28T17:14:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T17:03:53Z
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