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4. Voodoo Is Resistance

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 11:32 AM

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Voodoo, which is original spiritual practices of the Africans who were brought over to the New World as slaves and syncretized with Catholicism, has always been about resistance to authority.

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