BBtv WORLD: Roots of Voudun and Slavery's Legacy in Ouidah

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Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring you first-person glimpses of life around the globe.

From the 17th to 19th centuries, millions of African people were sold
 into slavery, transported on ships 
to the Americas. With them came spiritual traditions 
including Voudun, which we now 
know as voodoo.
 Its roots are in the Dahomey kingdom 
on the West Coast of Africa, now the country of Benin.


In todays episode, I 
travel to Benins port city of Ouidah,
 one of the most important slave trade ports, 
and a center of the Vodoun religion.

We visit the Temple of Pythons and learn about Voudun religious practices, and witness some of the most important sites in the history of the slave trade.

We walk along a beach that was the single most highly-trafficked embarkation point for West African slaves headed over the Atlantic to the Americas. One million people were forced on to ships here, many transported to Haiti and Brazil, where Voudun transmuted into voodoo and Candomblé.

Outsiders called this region the Slave Coast. Ouidah's residents today call the former boarding platform on this otherwise idyllic beach the Gate of No Return. -- XJ

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[daniels37]

@germanyinthehouse YOU GOT THAT RIGHT

[TRUTHEXPANDING]

Whites are only descendants of the Ancient African Albinos. Could it be an ancient abandonment/rejection wound that has created this monster?

[scalarintelligence]

@garychldress74 exactly, while other report supposedly the most high is within us. u make an excellent point. i came to this realizations few days ago and was doing google searches and found your comment

[ShaktipatSeer2]

crazy black magick

[germanyinthehouse]

@bigman300ful White people will rise only to fall. Whites are always poffing thier numbers up. But in fact whites are only 1/10 of the population and it is dieing fast (0 to 0 Birth rate). Us as Africans will rise, so will the Mexicans, Indians, Asains, Middle Easterns etc... And guess what we all have in common? We hate the white man with all our heart lol..lol..lol... Motherfuckkker it's on and it's lights out for white men and back to the bed with white women as horum!! Back to the caves.

[couzinric999]

@bigman300ful Disease killed the Indians off, thanks for bringing the disease here you filthy white cave beast... Save your false facts for those that don't know any better. We know your disagreeableness... we don't care about your "uprising" because you’re no longer the Majority in the US (Fact) our Latin brothers are, and with in the next 40 years you wont exist (extinction not distinction) (thanks, White Women we love you 4 loving us).... Good bye Good ol boy enjoy it while you can...

[bigman300ful]

I say stop the complaing or go back to africa..,grow some thick skin and pull your own weight too,the white people have had enough and the white people are going to rise up..the proof is showing too,Without the white race all the minorities will become into distinction,, like the indians was when we saved them from distinction..disease was killing them off too..all should worship whitey and have joy now......

[garychldress74]

We are Hamites not Shemites Biblically speaking. YHWH is The Evil one who out of arrogance fell from Grace . YHWH told Abraham to SACRIFICE issac to prove himself AMEN don't do that. The Hebrews are the ones like the Arab Muslims call the shia they practice mutalation in their ceremonies they are the Children of SHEM. Islam, Judaism & Christianity all worship the God of Abraham. When Moses came down from MT.SINIA he had only 10Laws not 613 those was not written during his time .

[milleziano]

@gc74, the Hamites are nothing, more than idol worshippers. The concept of monotheism is NOT something that came from Egypt. Also, the Law of Moses is AGAINST child sacrifices, Deu 18:9-11, Deu12:28-31 However, Israel did break these commands and that's why the curses mentioned in Deu 28:15-68 are still upon Israel. The gnostic writings are BS, much like the RCC, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, you name it all world religions, including Sleepgyptology.

YHWH created satan, Pro 16:4

[milleziano]

@gc74, u won't be able to convert me. I agree alot of false prophets and false teachers have gone out in the streets telling lies and twisting scripture. You cherry pick scriptures where the sun is mentioned and you attempt to use these verses to say the Bible is ploagiarized from the Egyptians, which is just ignorance.. There are 613 LAWS contained in the Law of Moses. Again, there are

NO prophesies mentioned in any of the egyptian writings.