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

By: Hucks, Tracey EMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People SeriesPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781478092780Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, ObeahLOC classification: BL2532Online resources: Click to View
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.
Summary: Tracey E. Hucks traces the history of the repression of Obeah practitioners in colonial Trinidad.
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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.

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

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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