AFRICANS IN AMERICA: HOODOO STOLEN LEGACY • BLACK MAGIC • ALKHEMY • IS OURS

A brief history on African religion in the U.S. and its commodification by Europeans.

Our ancestors were murdered for practicing our systems of healing and spiritual communion, and were labeled as devil worshippers because Europeans feared the power of those systems of active faith.

Africans had no concept of the devil the way it was forced upon us through European christianity. Fear of our families being broken apart, fear of our children, wives, and husbands being raped or castrated, fear of being punished to death for being ourselves- FEAR was the portal through which the devil, white Jesus, heaven, and hell came into our psyches and still affect us to this day.

Here are my sources below for this video:

Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce
By Carolyn Morrow Long

Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
By Katrina Hazzard-Donald

African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South
By Dea Boster

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition
By Yvonne Chireau

Conjure in African American Society
Jeffrey Anderson

Cultures of Empire: A Reader
By Catherine Hall

An Encyclopedia of Slave Rebellion and Resistance
Edited by Junius Rodriguez

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Georgia Narratives Part 1

Narrative of the Life of Thomas Cooper