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“Supernatural solutions were not embraced by bondsmen simply because other forms of controlling and other centers of power were closed to them. From the very beginning, Hoodoo both was embedded within an immediate network of sanctions and supports and was able to engage in coercion and behavior shaping representing a source of power within the fragile and uncertain normative structure of the slave community. Hoodoo, more than any other aspect of slave cultural tradition, promised power beyond the brittle normative structure of the community of bondsmen. This promise could not always be fulfilled; but when it was, it strengthened Hoodoo belief and practice.”
-Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System
