Obeah men organized slave rebellions via secrecy oaths and fetishes

Evidence

[O]beah functioned largely in the numerous rebellions of the slaves. This was particularly the case with the obeah-men from the Gold Coast… . In the plotting of these rebellions the obeah-man was essential in administering oaths of secrecy, and, in cases, distributing fetishes which were supposed to immunize the insurgents from the arms of the whites. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 681

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core causal mechanism — African religious practitioners as ideological and organizational architects of revolt — that connects to Chapter 5’s treatment of slave rebellion consciousness and to your rise/fall arc reading.
• QUESTION: Was there a comparable ‘oath of secrecy’ structure in other recorded slave rebellions — Haiti, the 1811 Louisiana revolt — that would confirm this as a pan-diaspora pattern?