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Essay heading: Voodoo and its Orgins
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These services were effective in blending the rites and practices of many religions into one combination religion. This adaptation effectively created a new religion, voodoo, which translates to "spirit" in several African languages (Bout). Voodoo allowed the slaves to feel like part of their own group...
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This new-found unity was viewed as a threat to the French and British plantation owners of the newly settled colonies. As a means to quell the religious unity, the plantation owners forbade the practice of religion and punished slaves who attempted to pursue voodoo. Catholicism was presented as an alternative to voodoo...
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