Voodoo practice secretly organized the Haitian slave revolution

Evidence

“We swear to destroy the whites and all that they possess; let us die rather than fail to keep this vow.” The colonists knew this song and tried to stamp it out, and the Voodoo cult with which it was linked. In vain. (p. 18) … Voodoo was the medium of the conspiracy. In spite of all prohibitions, the slaves traveled miles to sing and dance and practice the rites and talk; and now, since the revolution, to hear the political news and make their plans, (p. 86) This was a complete departure from the way in which Marx and Engels had conceptualized the transformative and rationalizing significance of the bourgeoisie. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1289

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in the tradition’s origin — Voodoo as organizational medium parallels other secret-religious resistance movements.
• ADDENDUM: Links to the sacrifice article’s theme of ritual serving social-structural ends, here as revolutionary organization.