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  Mayele N'kunga was a maroon leader in the Philippines who was born in the Kingdom of Kongo.

Biography
Born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the year 1736 in a very traditional and cultured family, He learnt how to play different musical instruments, Like the marimba and others.

But, When he was just 12 years old he was captured by an spanish slave holder in the province of Soyo. In the countryside of M'banza Kongo, After being captured, He was taken to the coast of the kingdom in the city of Soyo waiting for the spanish to take him to a ship. He tried to scape but failed, Once in the boat is known that he was firstly taken to Brazil but bought by other slave holders and taken to the philippines. Once in phillipines he worked for him but he was in a very stressful situation and his maroon career started when a night he decided to scape with other natives and black slaves. He went to the countryside while trying to scape one of the black slaves was caught but he was able to scape. After a lot of hours running he installed himself in a mountains near Manila. While there he got in touch with the peoples of the zone and developed a liking for the native filipino music and learnt to touch guitar and other native instruments. During all his childhood there he met important people who would do a way in his life.

Adulthood
When he grew up he was a very brave person. He used to control an group of maroons who were living in different mountains or living in rural areasl, In this moment he was around 21 or 23, There is a time to remember back in his childhood where he met 2 maroons who would help him in the battle, But when he grew up he became more dangerous and violent that was before.

early maroon wars
In 1766 he started a large war that would end with his life when a spanish slave holder killed his girlfriend, That made him be really mad and started the war to give freedom to the slaves who were still working for the spanish, In Philippines not so many slaves were taken, but there was around 24,000 slaves in the philippines and in malaya, indonesia and japan used to take 10,000 slaves by year, And some of those slaves used to scape to other countries like Cambodia and the coasts of vietnam (less known about those slaves)

wars of freedom
Mayele and His 2 friends, Makombo and Omo decided to fight the spanish in one of their plantations in the night of 1766, They had a sucessful try since a lot of slave holders died and 500 slaves got their freedom and became maroons, In the start of this war he attacked around 30 plantations. Is known that he also burnt alive slave holders in different villages and cities of philippines and all around Asia.

Cambodia
The next war developed in cambodia in 1767 to give the freedom of all the slaves in the country. It was a very strong war were a lot of slave holders were killed and burtn alive and is known that he also got a lover there in Cambodia, But not many since Cambodians and Vietnamese Did not like black people in their countries unless they became something important for the country. Once there in Cambodia there was a battle in the location of Phumi Châmbák, Since there was around 2 plantations back there, This 2 plantations were really big and can still be seen from the satelital map today, After a very long war in this location they went to fight Japanese slave holders who scaped in the war with their bodyguards in the forest of Chamka Kas and scaped to the river that is right there, but they got killed.

Vietnam
Is little known about this, But its known that he had a war to give the freedom to all the slaves in vietnam but couldn't give the freedom to all but a few, But, its known that the war was in the North of the country, near to the city of Hanoi.

The next wars 1767-1780
He had a lot of wars with slave holders in the philippines, Burning a entire house in 1777, And also burnt alive a lot of them, One of those wars is known that in present today Vasayas Occidental had a very violent war where a lot of people died, Including native ones, During that war he met a lot of girls too. Mostly African and filipina girls who he was dating at the same time. hes most known battle is the battle of Candoni in 1779, Just a year before he died, He was able to give the freedom of all the slaves in candoni back then, Natives and Africans.

Death
In one of he's trips to give freedom to the slaves he got in the vietnamese coast, near Da nang, While having a party near the coast japanese slave holders came to kill him, he noticed that and started a very large shootout where all he's friends and maroons died, And near the river Song vu Gia he was fighting alone with a musket, the shootout lasted around an hour, but that night he got shot by one of those japanese slavers and was killed in the riverside of Song vu Gia, Dying at the age of 43 years old.

Category:18th-century rebels