Paraphrase the following sentence "Prior to his
conversion, he relied upon his
own depravity to shield and
sustain him in his savage
barbarity, but after his
conversion, he found religious
sanction and support for his
slaveholding cruelty."

Before his religious enlightenment, he was left to his own barbaric devices.

wood carving remains today the primary sculptural art form of the sub saharan continent. african art history shows the earliest wooden sculptures from the 17th c are attributed to the kuba, central zaire but the earliest surviving sub-saharan sculpture is a zoomorphic head found in 1928 in central angola.

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