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The Woman Who Moved Bethlehem to Kongo

Kimpa Vita, read from the file of her killers.

In 1706 a twenty-year-old prophetess was burned as a witch for teaching that Jesus was born in Kongo and that God wanted the slave wars ended. Everything we know of her survives in the handwriting of the men who pressed for the fire.

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