From Vaudoux to Voodoo
A growing collection of electronic texts consisting of unabridged extracts from travellers' accounts and other primary sources on Afro-cultural beliefs and practices in Haiti and Louisiana. Mainly 19th Century.
- M L E Moreau de St-Mery: from Description topographique... (1797)
- M E Descourtliz: from Voyages d’un naturaliste en Haiti, 1799-1803 (1809)
- Charles Malenfant: from Des Colonies (1814)
- Drouin de Bercy: from De Saint-Domingue (1814)
- Thomas Madiou: from Histoire d'Haïti (1847-48)
- W W Webley: from The Missionary Herald (1850)
- Gustave d'Alaux: from L’Empereur Soulouque et Son Empire (1856)
- Théophile Guérin: from Biographie de l’Empereur Soulouque (1856)
- Paul d'Hormoys: from Biographie de l’Empereur Soulouque (1862)
- Pierre Larousse: entry on vaudou in Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe Siècle (1876)
- J W Buell: from The Mysteries and Miseries of America’s Great Cities (1882)
- Helene d'Aquin Allain: from Souvenirs d’Amérique et de France, par une Créole (1883)
- Sir Spenser St John: from Hayti, or, The Black Republic (1884)
- James Anthony Froude: from The English in the West Indies (1888)
- Newell in Journal of American Folklore (1888 and 1889)
- Hesketh J Bell: from Obeah; Witchcraft in the West Indies (1889)
- Charles Dudley Warner: from Studies in the South and West (1890)
- Henry C Castellanos: from New Orleans As It Was (1895)
- Lafcadio Hearn
- George Washington Cable
- Hesketh Prichard: from Where Black Rules White (1900)
- Eugene Aubin: from En Haiti (1910).
- Frédéric Marcelin: from Au Gré du Souvenir (1913)
- Stephen Bonsal: from The American Mediterranean (1913)
- Bruce Merwin: 'A Voodoo Drum from Hayti' (1917)
- Blair Niles: from Black Haiti (1926)
- Faustin Wirkus: from The White King of
La Gonave (1931)