Slave revolts drew on syncretized African cultural and ideological materials

Evidence

Irrespective of the scholars’ “debate” it is quite clear that the revolts were grounded on the syncretics of African cultural and ideological materials. Ramos, Nina Rodrigues, and Kent mention the Yoruba’s secret society, Obgoni, as a source of that group’s militancies, and everyone seems agreed that Islam played a tactical and strategic role in those movements for which the Hausa were directly responsible. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 770

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces that ‘obgoni’ was a Yoruba secret society, a concrete organizational node of the Black radical tradition.