Sure, myths that were generated to both justify slavery and to "explain" how in the world these slaves beat the mighty French are not in any way racist
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It is amazing to me that there are people who go as far as believing "pacts with the devil" to avoid acknowledging a good chunk of western history.
By the way, the Dominican Republic was also freed from French occupation during that same slave revolt, so the whole "but the Dominican Republic didn't suffer much" bs actually contradicts the whole myth.
As for the "factual" aspect of it all:
http://www.lai.su.se/gallery/bilagor...%20is%20in.pdf
"Boukman’s presence at the Bwa Kayiman ceremony
is mentioned for the first time by a French
abolitionist in the 1840s. Boukman as a revolutionary
leader is well documented, but his identity as a
religious leader or Vodou priest was not established
until the writings of the historian Ardouin fifty
years after the event (Geggus, 2002: 81-92)."
And nevermind that one of the leaders of the revolution and governor of Haiti, Toussaint L'Ouverture, was actually Catholic and actually outlawed voodoo in the first constitution of Haiti
John Relly Beard, 1800-1876. Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography.
Constitution of 1801 by Haiti 1801
Now, this is not to say that "voodoo" was insignificant. Of course not. But voodoo is in no way "devil's worship," just a part of west African religions, and was in no way that widespread among revolutionaries.