Black Moon - The Significance of Rada Drums at Sunset
Dr. Raymond Perez:
Listen. The sun is just setting.
Stephen Lane:
What is it?
Dr. Raymond Perez:
Drums. Rada drums.
Stephen Lane:
Rada drums?
Dr. Raymond Perez:
Blood worship. Sacrifice to the black gods. You call it voodoo.
Stephen Lane:
What does it mean?
Dr. Raymond Perez:
Who knows. But, this I do know, never have the drums beat so on St. Christopher without trouble.
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Black Moon - Conflict Over Natives' Presence in the House
Dr. Raymond Perez:
You know that no natives except the servants are allowed into the house!
Juanita Perez Lane:
He's a holy man. A priest. Their leader. He's above any servant! I've known him since I was a child.
Dr. Raymond Perez:
Then, let him remain in the hills where he belongs. If I ever find him in this house ever again, I'll have him whipped!
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Black Moon - Memory and the Weight of the Past
Juanita Perez Lane:
The past is dead! The natives have forgotten long ago.
Dr. Raymond Perez:
The natives never forget!
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Black Moon - Consequences of Misplaced Trust and Carelessness
Dr. Raymond Perez:
Those years I grew careless. I trusted Juanita to a native nurse, Ruva. She taught her the Rada of the blacks. At night, when I thought she was asleep, she was taken with native children to watch the sacrifice. She tasted blood!
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Black Moon - Historical Struggles and Superstitions Explored
Dr. Raymond Perez: [Showing Stephen Lane his stock of guns]
We've been prepared for the last 100 years. Six times the blacks have tried to wipe us out. I suppose you're acquainted with the negro superstition that seven is their lucky number.
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Black Moon - Uncertainty Amidst Disparity and Danger
Dr. Raymond Perez: [Rada drums beating in the background]
Something is happening. You ask me what and I can only say I do not know. I merely consider this. We are five whites. Two of them are women and one is a helpless child. And around us are two thousand black. Fully three-quarters of these are hill bandits - fugitives from Haiti.
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