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African religion and Candomble

 
The slaver, concerned solely with the slaves' work capacity and hence their bodily strength, was unable to reach their inner life force - that is, their gods, their myths, and their values, which were in their minds and gave them the inward strength to survive, to resist and to find self-renewal in a hostile environment.

Doudou Diene
The Slave Route, UNESCO

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