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”