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Framing Questions
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How did Africans live in freedom before enslavement? |
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How did Europeans and African Americans perceive African cultures? |
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What was the experience of capture and enslavement for those who became African Americans? |
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Image: Depiction of a leader, merchant, and soldiers in the kingdom of Kongo (Angola), ca. 1675, watercolor by Fr. Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo, published in Ezio Bassani, ed., "Un Cappuccino nell'Africa nera del seicento: I disegni dei Manoscritti Araldi del Padre Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo" ("A Capuchin in Black Africa in the Seventeenth Century: Drawings of the Araldi Manuscript of Father Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo"), Milan: Quaderni Poro, No. 4, 1987, plate 17. Digital image courtesy of Jerome S. Handler, Michael L. Tuite, Jr., and the University of Virginia Library, in the digital collection The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record.
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