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Pinda, also called Mpinda, was the port of Soyo near the mouth of the Congo River. It connected the kingdom of Kongo to Atlantic shipping, and its trade was subject to royal taxation. By the middle of the sixteenth century ships were carrying enslaved people from the port across the ocean. The Christian history of the region was also visible here: Capuchin missionaries later established a convent dedicated to Saint Anthony at Pinda.