Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… shaped the development of Saint-Domingue’s public sphere, setting up a clash between whites and free people of colour with the coming of the French Revolution. Places > Trade Practices > Politics & Society Keywords France Marronage North … religions, voodoo, which was a religion and a dance, thrived in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue. It involved pleading with various gods to provide protection, cures and vengeance against oppressors and sometimes included animal sacrifice. … it, this form of slave sociability was never extinguished (Fick 40-45). Marronage – departure from the plantation without permission – also involved sociability. The most common motivations to leave the plantation were to evade …
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