Voodoo Mysteries. The Slave's Revolution | Culture - Planet Doc Full Documentaries

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Voodoo Mysteries documentary. The Slaves revolution The slave trade with the New World was started not long after the Discovery of America. For more than three centuries, slave-ships continued with their sinister voyages loaded with their dreadful human cargo. Millions of people were captured in Africa and sold in America. By the end of the 18th Century, in Haiti alone, there was a population of more than 2,900,000 African slaves. After becoming a French possession in 1697, Haiti soon became America's biggest producer of sugar and also one of the places with the highest number of slaves in the world. The living conditions of the Africans confined in these yards were atrocious. After suffering the hardships of a voyage, where normally 20% of the slaves died, they arrived at the auctions exhausted and ill. Families were separated and the individual members were sold to different settlers. Parents and children would never meet again. The overseers meted out severe punishments to those who did not work flat out and the hunters of fugitive slaves subjected their prisoners to exemplary treatment which often resulted in death. Many succumbed to the wounds caused by heavy shackles, or dehydrated in the sun whilst chained to these sinister crosses. By the end of the 18th Century the black population had reached about 3 million and there were ever-increasing problems controlling them. The blacks that escaped, known as "browns", hid in the mountains and organised themselves in very large rebel groups. The rumours about the French Revolution gave new strength to the rebels. Boukman, the leader of the browns, organised a great secret ceremony in BOIS CAIMAN. That night on 14th August 1791, a black pig was sacrificed and all those present drank its blood. The revolution of the slaves had begun. The message was very clear: cut off heads, burn houses and destroy plantations. In a few days more than a thousand whites were killed. The terrified white settlers started the legend that the blacks had made a pact with the devil that night in BOIS CAIMAN. Subscribe our Channel for more Full Documentaries | http://www.youtube.com/user/PlanetDocChannel?sub_confirmation=1 Voodoo Mysteries | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_xnDE04X2MdpGYhyIIo5ghHSv9i4Q0up Full Documentaries playlist | http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_xnDE04X2Mc5pnHfQg40LERYOfVzdZo4 Culture documentaries playlist; http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_xnDE04X2MefNJowWSK7lrjD8n-fx5g9