When Zora Neale Hurston Studied Zombies in Haiti
Zora Neale Hurston’s 1930s study of Haitian voodoo culture showed her a new category between life and death
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12 min readJul 23, 2019
When Zora Neale Hurston stepped ashore in Port-au-Prince, in September 1936, Haiti was in the middle of what local officials were calling its second independence. Since an armed revolution in 1791, which…
