William Wells Brown peaked from around the tree.

He'd never seen anything like the ritual before his eyes, a fiery cauldron, folks talking

in tongues, and dancing beneath the midnight moonlight.

These spiritual ceremonies remind us of the importance of trusting ancestral wisdom. This is two-minute black history. What one could know they were there.

William Wells Brown peered into the ritual, where folks sat around a fiery cauldron speaking

in a medley of the esporic tunnel.

The Queen of the Ceremony waved the wand over the pot before throwing an animal parts and ushering in a dancer.

Our people use hoodoo on plantations as Brown Witness.

These practices required community care. on plantations as Brown witnessed.

These practices required community care

to keep one another spiritually safe during enslavement.

Uncle Frank sat in a chimney corner

when Brown arrived one night.

Well, my son, you have come to get Uncle to tell your fortune, have you?

Brown went to see Uncle Frank, an older man known on the plantation for his fortune telling wisdom.

For 25 cents he used a waterfield gour to predict brows freedom.

Brown later successfully escaped on the steamboat. Then there was Dickie, the Guoofer King. He dusting himself in the herbal powdery protective

hoodle substance to conjure his way out of whippings and fell wood.

Brown wrote, Dinky closely inspected the snake's skin around his neck, the petrified

frog and dried lizard in his pockets and had rubbed himself all over with Goofer.

Dinky was rarely in the field and his enslaver never assaulted him again.

Leading into ancestral wisdom creates a powerful layer of protection around us.

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