MSF Podcast 13: Ritual and Revolution in the Black Diaspora

Creating counter-narratives…

– Roots of Independence Day
– Frederick Douglass “What to the slave is the Fourth of July” [and the tea on his first wife Anne Murray-Douglass, who doesn’t get recognized for her important part in the abolitionist struggle!)
– Discussion of the importance of ritual and spiritualism in Black revolts and revolutions:
– Nat Turner’s (1831) prophetic visions and eerie correlations with the story of Christ, his special relationship with eclipses as signs from the Divine, and more
– The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and role of Haitian Vodou in Haiti’s victory over France, and emerging as the first Black Republic in the Western world
– #CapricornAdvice segment, tarot & spiritual advice to listener “JH”

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