HIS231H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Saint-Domingue, Haitian Vodou, European Colonialism
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Mederic louis-elie moreau de saint-mery: description of the french part of the island of. Portrays the different types of people in saint-domingue at the end of the 18th century. *a mulatresse is dedicated to sensual pleasure (narrative for half black half white women). Described as a ritual dance practices by slaves in saint-domingue. There are probably more practices but moreau de saint-mery was unfamiliar with them. All these practices would form the religion called haitian vodou. Calls it a well-established system of domination and blind-submission. ". Nothing is more dangerous than this cult of vaudoux. ". The ridiculous idea that the ministers of this being know and can do everything could be transformed into a terrible weapon. ". Laurent dubois: avengers of the new world: the story of the haitian revolution. During the 1790s, philadelphia received many exiles who were escaping slave revolution in the caribbean, especially saint-domingue.
