Obeah persisted and mutated across centuries into successive Jamaican movements.
Evidence
As it happened, obeah proved to be more resilient than its opponents. Indeed, it was never extinguished. It continued its mutational adaptation and development in Jamaica (and elsewhere) over the centuries, successively manifesting itself in the societies of Myalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Pocomania movement of the late nineteenth, and the Rastafarians of the present. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 682
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Demonstrates the continuity and adaptation of African religious forms central to the Black radical tradition.