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Over more than three centuries European and American traders shipped about 12.5 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic; about 10.7 million survived the crossing. Many came from Kongo and Angola as well as West Africa, and in Brazil, Cuba and Haiti they rebuilt their religions as Candomblé, Lucumí and Vodou. Vodou's spirits, the lwa, draw on Fon, Kongo and Yoruba traditions alike, so Haitian Vodou is not simply a Yoruba religion.