Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah : : Africans in the White Colonial Imagination, Volume 1.

• Superior document: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series
• Author: Hucks, Tracey E.
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)

Tracey E. Hucks traces the history of the repression of Obeah practitioners in colonial Trinidad.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Volume I -- 1. The Formation of a Slave Colony. Race, Nation, and Identity -- 2. Let Them Hate So Long as They Fear: Obeah Trials and Social Cannibalism in Trinidad's Early Slave Society -- 3. Obeah, Piety, and Poison in The Slave Son: Representations of African Religions in Trinidadian Colonial Literature -- 4. Marked in the Genuine African Way: Liberated Africans and Obeah Doctoring in Postslavery Trinidad -- Afterword: C'est Vrai-It Is True -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.