Chapter 1 Africa and Black Americans Which African languages were spoken in the territory of what is now the United States of American in 1705? In 1805? In 1905? In 2005? What are the main sources of the way of thinking called Ethopianisms? Name at least one black artist who made Ethiopianist art. What happened in the 1920s to affect black Americans’ thinking about Africa? How did African independence change the way black artists depicted Africans? In what ways are black and non-black Americans similarly related to the kings and queens of their ancestors’ native lands?