Afro-spiritual contributions to our continental and Caribbean diversity are the result of older, faith-driven rebellions.
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Living in subhuman conditions under the harsh conditions of forced and continuous labor, the enslaved Africans agreed, on Aug. 14, 1791, in a Caïman forest ceremony, to start one of the most important rebellions of the African diaspora in the American hemisphere. It was with these words of that Vodun priestess that all the enslaved men and women of Saint-Domingue rose up against the enslaving system. The island was burned from north to south, from east to west, until freedom was achieved on Jan. 1, 1804. That was the first triumphant African religious rebellion in the Western world where Vodun, the religion practiced by 90% of the population, was used.
For the first time in contemporary history, marriages were made official in the manner of Haitian Vodun. The Yorubas, a civilization in the western part of Nigeria, was one of the ethnic groups abducted and enslaved in large numbers at the end of the 18th century and well until the end of the 19th century, when slavery was finally abolished in Cuba and Brazil . Yorubas had and have one of the most complex and complete religious orders in sub-Saharan Africa.
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