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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151719003321

Autore

Daggett Melissa

Titolo

Spiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans : the life and times of Henry Louis Rey / / Melissa Daggett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2019

ISBN

1-4968-1012-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

Mississippi scholarship online

Disciplina

133.909763/3509034

Soggetti

Free African Americans - Louisiana - New Orleans

Creoles - Louisiana - New Orleans

Spiritualism - Louisiana - New Orleans - History - 19th century

New Orleans (La.) History 19th century

New Orleans (La.) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The advent of Modern American Spiritualism took place in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many séance circles flourished in the Faubourgs Tremé and Marigny as well as the American sector of the city. This text focuses on Le Cercle Harmonique, the francophone séance circle of Henry Louis Rey, a Creole of colour who was a key civil rights activist, author, and Civil War and Reconstruction leader.