In life, prince Manuwalde was a noble spirit, who sought to end the slave trade in Africa. During the eighteenth century, he worked to convince native kings and tribal chiefs to discontinue their raids and local wars for slave collection, gaining some converts, but finding that economic imperative caused the continuance of African collusion with the enslavement of blacks. Therefore, he resolved to attempt to cut the demand through a tour of Europe, making his plea to the crowned heads, basing his arguments on Christian compassion and enlightenment. Here he found an even less receptive audience.Mamuwalde was therefore honored to accept an invitation from a noble count of the Austrian empire, Count Dracula of Transylvania. The Count hosted and entertained Mamuwalde and his young wife, Luva, giving him some hope that he had found his first activist against slavery among the European nobility. Mamuwalde was to be disappointed, however, when Dracula revealed his true nature - as Prince of Darkness and creature of the night. Dracula took Mamuwalde, transforming him, likewise into a foul vampire, and locking him up in a sealed crypt with only his innocent wife to feed upon.Mamuwalde resisted the urge to vampirize his beloved, and so remained sealed in the crypt next to her body until 1972, when his coffin was purchased and shipped to New York by two gay interior decorators. These men became his first victims upon opening the coffin. Mamuwalde soon discovered that his Luva appeared to have been reincarnated in the form of a young African American woman named Tina. He sought to court her, meanwhile feeding on the riff raff of New York and threatening to create a vampire plague in the city. While Tina did find herself falling in love with the curiously noble and tragic figure, her friends worked to solve the crimes and destroy the vampire. Tragically, their efforts result in the police accidentally shooting Tina, who Mamuwalde is finally forced to vampirize. Her friends choose to save her soul by the classic method of the stake through the heart, and Mamuwalde, heart-broken walks into the sun to be destroyed.This was not the end for Mamuwalde, however, who was resurrected by a foolish voodoo practitioner looking to exact revenge on enemies. This time he sought out a voodoo priestess in the hope of being cured of his curse, but she turned on him after witnessing a murderous rage by Mamuwalde, and destroyed him a second time through the use of a voodoo doll. Show less «