It's true that we don't see assons, dwapo lwa, or some of the other items we've come to classify with Haitian Vodou in traditional New Orleans practices. (They are part of the "New Plague" of NO Voodoo, which began in the 1970s and persists to this day). Motionless, that's not crucially LP on an NO/Haiti relationship. In the role of we call "Haitian Vodou" or "Candid Vodou" became arrived done the brood part of the 20th century, as getting bigger urbanization drew a choice of Haitian farmers off their land and off from their clannish and neighborhood practices.
Outstanding damning are the inestimable laws on importing slaves from the French Antilles in vogue North America. At this time the slaveholding states were in atrocious that the Saint-Domingue aim would sky through the Americas. As brood as 1782 gift were laws on bringing in slaves from the French Antilles: they had a last name for distinctive fractious and disloyal. (Prone the conditions on Saint-Domingue and other sugar-producing colonies, who can rate them?!) By 1791 gift were searches at most ports to verify that no one imported Saint-Domingue slaves -- and the Saint-Domingue insurrectionary.
Contemporary may lay claim to been a few Domingan slaves brought to New Orleans, for example it was more readily well-known even along with as a smuggling hub. But they were few and far between: as in the rest of the Together States, the size of slaves were from the Kongo regions of meat and southern Africa. Kongo practices form the grave African state on every Hoodoo and New Orleans Voodoo. The idolization of the dead, mojo hands, and compliment to "La Grande Zombi" (the from head to foot Nsambi, or spirit) in the midst of others, can all be traced to the Kongo. And of course we lay claim to the clearance in the Trem'e neighborhood everyplace slaves and free blacks would oppressive on Sundays to stock their property and transfer, the magnificent "Congo Patio."
But if the Domingans did not bring Haitian Vodou with them, they helped snake the conditions in which New Orleans Voodoo was instinctive. They provided a French-speaking and Catholic bulwark on the rush of Anglophone Protestants. This helped to verify that a choice of folk practices in the urban would lay claim to a Catholic circulate, as reverse to the Protestant-inspired Hoodoo found in most of the south. They too brought with them a three-caste automaton of whites, blacks, and mixed-race "kinfolk of color." Tons Domingan refugees were leading, well-versed gens du coleur who helped mode New Orleans Creole culture: others were free blacks who celebrated themselves as tradesmen and clever artisans. And they brought with them a culture everyplace associations between the races was far further typical than in the further straight segregated Anglophone regions.
All this was instrumental in forming the culture which gave us the folk traditions of New Orleans. So once gift may not be a unswerving tumble between the mamalois and papalois of the peat bog and the practitioners in Port-au-Prince, there's no challenge that New Orleans culture owes an sizeable measure to the Haitian Invention.From the Kenaz Filan Blog http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com
