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Authors: Rod Davis

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for Yemonja, 200
of Olokun, 201
santeria, 259
Side by Side Bookstore, 81
siempre vive herb, 283
Simmons, Brad, 303
Sister Mary, 140, 142
Sister Plummer, 140,
141,
144
Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination, Africa to the New World
(Bascom), 226n
Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America
(Wilmore & Stuckey), 356, 359
slave revolts, 8-9, 130-33

 

Page 391
alternative outcome theories, 352-53
Christian instruction as a deterrent to, 359
factors preventing, 353-54
fear of, 350-52
role of voudou in, 353-56, 359
Slave Trade, The
(Thomas), 7
slavery, 12, 130
cessation of trading, 349-50
origins of American voudou in, 7-12
population estimates, 7-8
religion and, 8
role of Christianity in, 360
role of preachers in, 356-58
role of priests, 354-56
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