Vaudoux

Novels (selected titles): Gustave Aymard, Les Vaudoux, 1910; Theodore Roscoe, A Grave Must Be Deep, serial 1934-1935, volume 1989; Richard E.

(4.) Since the word "voodoo" is closely associated with Anglo-American ideas of black magic, many scholars prefer other orthographies, such as vodun, vodou, Vaudoux, vadoun, and vodoum.

Haiti's never had smooth anything, and Dubois suggests why in a series of shrewd explorations of pre-1804 plantation life, the social ambitions of "free coloreds," the terror of field slaves after branding (as if they were livestock) and torture (lopped-off ears, boiling cane juice, live burial), bartering sex for emancipation, syncretic religions like "Vaudoux"--and even, after the insurrectionary wars and the atrocity swappings, Toussaint's very own "militarized" labor policy and "police state."