Blog Post # 7 Introduction: Haitian Voodoo


Kista Turner

Dr. Joanna Harris

English Composition 1102    

April 2019


Haitian Voodoo: Does Haitian Voodoo have the same impact on believers, non-believers and the curious?
 

Haitian Voodoo is known as a multifarious religion, most people believe that it originated out of Africa however majority of the beliefs were initiated by Haitian slaves. Voodoo is a historical conception developed by descendants of African slaves who were uprooted then planted in Haiti.

Later, called Saint Dominque this general population was transformed by Roman Catholic priests during the closing of the 16th and opening of the 17th centuries.  There is a world known myth that the tenacious people of Haiti were capable to conquer the French renegade throughout the Haitian Revolt by credit given to the Voodoo mysticisms, those historically that made them invincible.
 

The over-all terror & misunderstanding of Voodoo in the United States is linked back to the conclusion of the Haitian Revolution which continued from 1791 to 1804. This was a massive slave insurrection which started on the night of August 21, 1791 which later became the Haitian Revolution wherein slaves attacked whites in a brutal & mutant race war.

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