AP African American Studies Resource Archive | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Learn more about Kongolese cultural practices merging with Christianity and evolving across the Atlantic.

Explore the development and evolution of, and forms of resistance against, the Kongolese-Portuguese slave trade.

Explore the origins and evolution of the slave trade in Kongo and Portugal.

Explore the spread of Bantu languages, Christianity, and Islam and trade routes throughout African kingdoms.

Explore the origins of the transatlantic slave trade and the plantation system.

Explore the history of Catholic conversion and syncretic practices in the kingdom of Kongo.

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