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1960: Claude Souffrant concluded that the Catholicism taught in Haiti had preached a “religion of resignation” to the rural peasantry.

1960: Claude Souffrant concluded that the Catholicism taught in Haiti had preached a “religion of resignation” to the rural peasantry. He argued that the fatalism often attributed to Vodou was equally a product of Kreyòl hymns that encouraged the poor to bear suffering patiently.

Source  ·  p. 228 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 228