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A 4 page research paper that describes the system of Trokosi that enslaves Ghana women to fetish priests. According to this belief, if a crime has been committed and a girl is not enslaved, then the gods will be unhappy and members of the family will die. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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33). According to this custom, a females of a family have to serve as slaves to the shrine priests in order to make reparation for the crimes committed by family
members ("After..." 33). According to this belief, if a crime has been committed and a girl is not enslaved, then the gods will be unhappy and members of the
family will die ("After..." 33). Dogbadzis parents gave her to the shrine priest to make amends for a petty theft that was allegedly committed by her grandfather ("After..." 33). Dogbadzi
lived through fourteen years of physical and sexual abuse by the priest, and bore him two children, before escaping to the Ghana office of International Needs, a Vancouver-based Christian missionary
and relief group ("After..." 33). Five days ago, four hundred Trokosi women were liberated from 95 shrines in the Akatsi and Ketu districts by International Needs (Oduigwome; Archer 0#doc). The
Trokosis included children whose ages ranged from two to four years of age. One of the women who were liberated related that she was sent to the shrine at the
age of 13 to atone for the sins of her uncle, who had committed murder (Oduigwome; Archer 0#doc). A religious ceremony was performed by a spokesman for the fetish
priests, Togbe Atsu Eklo of the Adzimashi shrine, which appealed to the gods and their ancestors to accept the change and use animals to atone for sins instead of human
beings (Oduigwome; Archer 0#doc). Togbe appealed to other shrines to liberate their slaves. The estimated figures for the women and girls being held
captive in Trokosi slavery was estimated in 1997 to be at least 4,000 ("Ghana..." PG). These women are considered to be the property of the fetish priests. They are expected
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