According to her testimony, given at an inquest on her life, Kimpa Vita had visions by God Kongo and was considered to be a prophetess to the Kongolese, declaring that Jesus, Yissa’Yah Kongo, came from the Kongo kingdom. She forbade her people to let the Portuguese in because the were going to enslave them. She kept proclaiming the message until the Portuguese Catholics burned her at the stake. And as she had claimed, the Portuguese Catholics finally started killing, murdering, raping and enslaving the Kongolese, breaking up families, sending them away to the Americas.