A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau - Softcover

Long, Carolyn Morrow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813032148 ISBN 13: 9780813032146

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2007

Synopsis

Legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church. In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths and complete fabrication, Carolyn Morrow Long explores the unique social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau's African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century New Orleans.

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Review:

"Thanks to this writer's exhaustive, scrupulous, honest research debunking the false or questionable myths passed down through the generations, we can now be confident of what we know and do not know about Marie Laveau and her life and times in nineteenth-century New Orleans."--Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

About the Author:

Carolyn Morrow Long, a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, is the author of Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0813032148
• ISBN 13: 9780813032146
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336