This episode on the Bois Caiman Ceremony is intended to supply an analysis of the Haitian slave revolution which has been deliberately negative in tone. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, Afro-American religious provided slave rebellions with leaders, organization, and a community of feeling. During the revolutionary crisis in Saint-Domingue, too, magico-religious beliefs helped to mobilize resistance and foster a revolutionary mentality.

 

Sources:

Haitian revolutionary studies : David Patrick Geggus. 
Geggus, David Patrick
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, c2002. 

The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below By Carolyn E. Fick

The Political Economy of Disaster: Destitution, Plunder and Earthquake in Haiti by Mats Lundahl