Sunday, April 19, 2020

As my family and I were making our way to this new world on the ship that brought us from Africa. The men that took us and put us on these ships, were practicing this weird and kind of interesting voodoo or ritual that we were not accustomed to. They were praying to a certain God and they were saying his son Jesus. And on this journey, they also had these men who they called a priest. Before we were put on the ships these men who were called priests came to our village and taught us all about what the Catholic faith was all about. They converted us and said that we were part of their country because we became Catholic. As we got to the new world we began practicing the Catholic religion and it was very different to us. We come from a place where we had many of different gods and deities that we prayed too and different ceremonies for them, but now we only celebrate mass and while we were in our homeland they came to us and told us that this is the right religion and the religion that we were practicing was the incorrect one. Then they told us that Catholicism is the correct one and told us that since we are part of this colony we need to practice the right religion. As we arrived in the new world we became more prominent in the Catholic faith. We started practicing the Catholic religion. As time goes on the country of Cuba began to become a Roman Catholic practicing country and it all started when the Europeans came to our country in Africa and they converted us and then brought us to the new world. As time went on Cuba became predominantly Roman Catholic but also as time went on some of the people came over with me, they revolted and they kept their religion and practiced it. This did not make the men happy and some of my friends who revolted were never seen again. They tried to tell us that the Catholic faith is the only religion and that anyone who did not practice it would be punished.