When the willing agents of slavery dispersed the people of Africa, not only were people relocated, but along with them parts of their culture, including their religions. For the majority of Africans who ended up on the shores of St. Domingue, voodoo (also sometimes spelled vo-du) was their religion. Although one term is used to describe voodoo, there are actually many different forms of voodoo, much as Christianity consists of many different denominations. In voodooism, however, peoples from different parts of Africabrought different religious beliefs, which combined and reshaped each other in Haiti. Still, some observers claimed that different strands of African religion remained unentangled in their Haitian descendants. For example, “the Nago populations generally inhabit the north [of Haiti]…the Ibos tend to live in the southwest.” The various voodoo sects differ as to which god or gods are more important to that particular tribe.
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