Once they reached Washington, however, the men drugged, chained, robbed, and sold him to a slave trader.

然而，他们一到华盛顿，这些人就下药，用铁链锁住，抢劫，然后把他卖给一个奴隶贩子。

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However, he later discovered that this was the name of a Kanuri slave-trader who captured and sold his kinsmen.

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Imoinda, however, prefers execution to submission, but is sold to a white slave-trader instead by a character not in the original, the king's wicked minister, Orumba.

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