The Know Your Caribbean Podcast

Obeah, Murder, and Prostitution in the Post Emancipation Caribbean


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In 1840's Saint Lucia the tides have turned for Black women on the island. Abandoning the plantations that enslaved them, they took to the streets as sex workers taking agency over their bodies. White priests ventured not into the depths of the countryside to indoctrinate the Christian faith, and so in the enclaves of the countryside, African spirituality prevails. Here we uncover an obsessive man who seeks the help of an Obeah man to conquer an infatuation, which leads to murder.


Mid episode music by the people of Oleon, Deanery Saint Lucia, near Mabouya Valley

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