Editing Ezili Dantor (section)

==Dantor and the Haitian Revolution==
[[File:Czestochowska.jpg|thumb|[[Black Madonna of Częstochowa]]]]
It is accounted that the slave revolt of 1791 started with a pact which followed a big feast in honour to Ezili Dantor. For this reason she is considered the national [[Lwa]]. Considered to be a fearless warrior in the Petro Nation (''Petwo Nanchon'' in [[Haitian Creole]]), Dantor has been popular among single mothers during the 1980s and 1990s in [[Haitian Vodou|Haiti]] and [[Dominican Vudú|Dominican Republic]].

Syncretic modern representations of Dantor sometimes associate her with the Mater Salvatoris,<ref name=Braziel2016 /> especially those depicted with children; [[Our Lady of Lourdes]] and [[Our Lady of Mount Carmel]] as examples.<ref name=Brown2001 /> The most common association however, is the [[Black Madonna of Częstochowa]],<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Smith|editor1-first=Bonnie G.|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 1|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-514890-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordencycloped0000unse_k2h2/page/436 436]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordencycloped0000unse_k2h2/page/436}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Krista|first1=White|title=Espousing Ezili: Images of a Lwa, Reflections of the Haitian Woman|journal=Journal of Haitian Studies|date=1999–2000|volume=5/6|page=68|publisher=Center for Black Studies Research}}</ref> the patron saint of [[Poland]]. 

The original association of Ezili Dantor with the Black Madonna of Częstochowa is hypothesized to be from copies of the icon brought to Haiti by Polish soldiers sent by order of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], to subdue the then still ongoing [[Haitian Revolution]]. It is accounted that the Polish legion saw the struggle of the Polish nation during the [[Partitions of Poland]] in the struggle of the Haitian slaves in fights for their freedom, and as a result the Polish soldiers eventually [[Defection|turned on the French army]] to join the Haitian slaves.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6p6QrBL79xEC&q=cazale+haiti&pg=PT142 |title=Haiti: A Shattered Nation |author= Abbott, Elizabeth |date= 2011 |publisher=Overlook |isbn=9781468301601 |accessdate=1 January 2015}}</ref> As a consequence of this action, during [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]]'s [[1804 Haiti massacre|1804 massacre]], which took place shortly after the Haitian victory; the Poles were left alive and granted citizenship of the newly-founded [[Haiti|Republic of Haiti]]. The [[Polish Haitians|descendants of these soldiers]] are still living in the island, specifically in the locality of [[Cazale]].<ref>[http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive/msg02863.html "Re Polish presence in Haiti: Judson comments"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325123139/http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive/msg02863.html |date=25 March 2008 }} – Discussion on webster.edu. </ref>