Description...of the French Part of the Island of Saint-Domingue, pg. 57

This chapter describes the behavior of the mulatto people and of the Vaudoux (which I assume, from my two years of high school French, means Voodoo) practices that occurred on Saint-Domingue. The Mulattos were described as well build and intelligent. The author says they would be able to be successful at modern things such as liberal arts. However, the author writes that they do not care too much to excel at these practices because their greatest joy is to be lazy. He writes that pleasure (dancing, riding horses and 'abandoning themselves in sensuality' to be specific) are what they enjoy most, and they would rather part take in these activities than things like liberal arts. Women Mulattos, Mulatress, are described as elegant, graceful and so beautiful that he compares them to Greek goddesses. (I guess that these women looked especially beautiful to the author because he was on an island where women were scarce) The Vaudoux ceremonies were interesting. They worshiped a snake god, drank goat's blood, promised to die before revealing their oaths and to kill anyone else who would reveal their oaths. (This reminded me of some sort of a devil worshiping cult with a snake god, blood drinking and violence).