02214nam 2200493 450 991015171900332120190513163059.01-4968-1012-0(CKB)3710000000952376(MiAaPQ)EBC4745702(StDuBDS)EDZ0002050704(EXLCZ)99371000000095237620161211h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSpiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans the life and times of Henry Louis Rey /Melissa DaggettJackson :University Press of Mississippi,2019.1 online resource (229 pages)Mississippi scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2016.1-4968-1008-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Mississippi scholarship online.Free African AmericansLouisianaNew OrleansBiographyCreolesLouisianaNew OrleansBiographySpiritualismLouisianaNew OrleansHistory19th centuryNew Orleans (La.)History19th centuryNew Orleans (La.)Race relationsFree African AmericansCreolesSpiritualismHistory133.909763/3509034Daggett Melissa1270374MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910151719003321Spiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans2991546UNINA