LEADER 02214nam 2200493 450 001 9910151719003321 005 20190513163059.0 010 $a1-4968-1012-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000952376 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4745702 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002050704 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000952376 100 $a20161211h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans $ethe life and times of Henry Louis Rey /$fMelissa Daggett 210 1$aJackson :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (229 pages) 225 1 $aMississippi scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a1-4968-1008-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aThe advent of Modern American Spiritualism took place in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many se?ance circles flourished in the Faubourgs Treme? and Marigny as well as the American sector of the city. This text focuses on Le Cercle Harmonique, the francophone se?ance circle of Henry Louis Rey, a Creole of colour who was a key civil rights activist, author, and Civil War and Reconstruction leader. 410 0$aMississippi scholarship online. 606 $aFree African Americans$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$vBiography 606 $aCreoles$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$vBiography 606 $aSpiritualism$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xRace relations 615 0$aFree African Americans 615 0$aCreoles 615 0$aSpiritualism$xHistory 676 $a133.909763/3509034 700 $aDaggett$b Melissa$01270374 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151719003321 996 $aSpiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans$92991546 997 $aUNINA