Congolese cast authority rested on eradicating sorcery

Evidence

In Palmares, in keeping with the cosmologies of Congolese and Angolan societies, magicians had been banned as inimical to the king’s authority. Among those peoples it was most often the case that legitimacy of authority and the very existence of social order were concomitants to the eradication of sorcery and witchcraft. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 680

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels how your own knowledge base treats religious practitioners — Palmares banning its magicians while Jamaican maroons made obeah men central inverts the modern intuition that resistance always embraces magical authority.