Geggus replies at length to three critiques of his Kongomania essay, from John Thornton, Christina Mobley, and James Sweet.

The response works through the evidence behind the various claims and hypotheses at issue, with demographic figures and the inference from them to cultural influence at its center. Disputed ground includes how ethnonyms such as Creole, Congo, and Mondongue should be used, how Vodou came into being, what weight to give the Vocabulaire Congo of Baudry des Lozieres, and how the uprising of 1791 and the Haitian war of independence were organized and what they aimed at.