In 1791, he was finally able to possess the boy when he reached manhood. In that year, tens of thousands of slaves arrived on packed slave ships heading to Haiti, Cuba, or Louisi-ana with four to five hundred strong workers. The French Army persecuted the Vodun faith, working to supress the worship of the Haitian slaves’ god, Nana Buluku, through forceful evan-gelization. Most of the slaves continued secretly worshiping the intercessory spirits, the Loas, who were the children of their god—and when the monks, like Brother Gottfried, arrived, they were obliged to take over the religious customs of the white owners.
The elders placed their intercessory spirits onto the altars of the Christians to save them from vanishing; they adored their own god instead of the Almighty, and t
