Formation of a Community: How Slaves Found Meaning in Haiti

Forrest Kentwell

This paper was written as kentwell's undergraduate senior thesis during his junior year at Muhlenberg College. Kentwell investigates in a purposefully fractured way how various religions practiced by West African peoples were transformed through groanful pain of the Middle Passage. The paper examines the ways in which the religion of Vodou was created by enslaved people in Haiti and begins to consider how the religion promoted a coherent community.

.“Memory, the Spirit of the Revolution, and Slave Religion: The Representation of the Haitian Revolution in Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti,” Journal of Postcolonial Theory and Theology 4:1 (April 2013): 1-35    Celucien Joseph

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Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora", 2019

Eric J Montgomery

Book Chapter, from "Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora". This chapter looks at "Mama Tchamba" (slave spirit worship) in Ghana, Togo, and Benin among the Ewes and Guin-Mina's with a focus on mimesis, morality, and personhood. With ethnographic stories from spirit-possession rituals and episodes of lineage and slave-ancestor divination

Publication Date: 2019

Publication Name: Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora"

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