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  • 3 - “God knows what I do”: Ritual Free Spaces

  • from II - Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Networks and Ties, Geographies and Space
  • Crystal Nicole Eddins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  • Book:
    Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
    Published online:
    14 April 2022
    Print publication:
    21 April 2022, pp 111-146
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    This chapter focuses on the spiritual world of enslaved people and the ways in which politicized consciousness and resistance were infused in ritual practices. This chapter is theoretically grounded by insights from the social movements field related to the politicization of social spaces and the role of cultural artifacts in social movements. I frame spiritual and ritual gatherings as free spaces where participants’ oppositional consciousness and sense of racial solidarity was enhanced through holding audience to anti-slavery and racial consciousness rhetoric; employing spiritual technologies to protect oneself and attract good fortune, usurping ultimate power from white plantation owners and asserting personal agency; and using marronnage to organize and recruit new ritual participants.

Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
  • Collective Action in the African Diaspora
  • 2nd edition
  • Crystal Nicole Eddins
  • Published online:
    14 April 2022
    Print publication:
    21 April 2022
  • The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. The book fills an important gap in the existing literature on the Haitian Revolution. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
  • Collective Action in the African Diaspora
  • Crystal Nicole Eddins
  • Published online:
    10 November 2021
    Print publication:
    28 October 2021
  • The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. Considering the importance of the Haitian Revolution and the growing scholarly interest in exploring it, Eddins fills an important gap in the existing literature.

  • 3 - “God knows what I do”: Ritual Free Spaces

  • from II - Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Networks and Ties, Geographies and Space
  • Crystal Nicole Eddins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  • Book:
    Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
    Published online:
    10 November 2021
    Print publication:
    28 October 2021, pp 111-146

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the spiritual world of enslaved people and the ways in which politicized consciousness and resistance were infused in ritual practices. This chapter is theoretically grounded by insights from the social movements field related to the politicization of social spaces and the role of cultural artifacts in social movements. I frame spiritual and ritual gatherings as free spaces where participants’ oppositional consciousness and sense of racial solidarity was enhanced through holding audience to anti-slavery and racial consciousness rhetoric; employing spiritual technologies to protect oneself and attract good fortune, usurping ultimate power from white plantation owners and asserting personal agency; and using marronnage to organize and recruit new ritual participants.