Santería was a
A) network of secret mutual aid societies created by Afro-Cubans to resist enslavement.
B) Spanish cultural tradition combining ritual practices like Catholicism and Freemasonry.
C) system of discrimination that denied Afro-Cubans education, health care, and jobs.
D) popular religion that drew on African cultural traditions to resist Cuban apartheid.

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Santería is a syncretic religion that combines African spiritual traditions, particularly from the Yoruba people, with elements of Catholicism. It developed among enslaved Africans in Cuba as a way to preserve their religious practices under the guise of Catholicism.

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