Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah : : Africans in the White Colonial Imagination, Volume 1.
Tracey E. Hucks traces the history of the repression of Obeah practitioners in colonial Trinidad.
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| Superior document: | Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series |
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| 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
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
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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.