Slave Religion Vs Slave Trade

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The New World was set into motion with the new found methods of transportation and an abundance of items to trade during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As this happened people began to moved around more freely and the slave trade started. The slave being brought over were typically traditional native African Yoruba believers, which were soon forced to interact and intermingled with the Roman Catholicism of the slave masters and plantation owner who they were now surrounded by. Similarities were soon found between the two seemingly contradictory religions, such as the believing in a single almighty God, the use of supernatural beings (angels) who can communicate between God and humans, as well as adhering to that spirits of the dead