Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… de Saint-Sauveur, 'Costumes de différents pays. Negresse et Femme Mulatre de St. Domingue', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.83.190.357, c.1797. Image Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, 'Costumes de différents pays. Nègre et négresse de St. Domingue', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.3.190.354, c.1797. Image 'Toussaint Louverture, Chef des noirs insurgés de Saint Domingue', Bibliothèque nationale … included animal sacrifice. The rituals sometimes took place in cemeteries that were abandoned by white people. Participants took a vow of secrecy, and despite the efforts of authorities to repress it, this form of slave sociability …
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