Religious and spiritual practices served as preparation for slave rebellion

Evidence

When separation was not possible, open revolts might fester; where rebellion was immediately impractical, the people prepared themselves through obeah, voodoo, Islam, and Black Christianity. Through these they induced charismatic expectations, socializing and hardening themselves and their young with beliefs, myths, and messianic visions that would allow them, someday, to attempt the impossible. Their history confirmed these processes; their fruition could be seen in the papaloi of the Haitian Revolution; the obeah men and women who crowd the trial records of slave rebellions in the Caribbean and elsewhere; the Muslim revolts in Brazil; the rebel preachers who appear at the center of resistance in Jamaica, Suriname, and North America. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1432

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• ADDENDUM: Connects to the reader’s interests in ritual and religious practice as infrastructure for resistance, though not one of the three listed articles.