benin west africa
colonialism slave trade

film notes

deutsche bank sponsored namaqua herrera genocide and carl jung redbook expo at the hammer
horrors of passage
voodoo sustained

slave ship

espanola
old name for haiti
where voodoo took root
rebellion

18 yr reign of terror v. french brutality
voodoo panic
news reached paris

voodoo priestess

zombie
perpetual purgatory

nerve poison
form
fish

individuals nailed into coffin

rolled down hill into abyss in barrel with nailspikes inside

zombies haitian versioon of empty ghost phys there but empty of what makes a human
perpetual purgatory

social sanction
analygous to electric chair

voodoo invoked by haitian leaders
francois duvalier
exploited by leaders
embedded int the ordinary religious life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Duvalier