VKN,

Amazing!

It literally frightens me as to how much I DON'T know about our peoples and how much history was concealed from us.

Thank you for sharing access to this article (I still don't know how you manage to do all this - my clock has only 24 hours in it!)

Peace
"Guided by the Ancestors"

: How the granddaughter of a slave came to be painted with a member
: of one of the richest and most powerful families in Italian
: history -- and painted out many years later -- reads like a
: script from "Dynasty" and sheds light on a
: little-studied period of African-European relations.