{"id":48256,"date":"2016-09-07T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48256"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:30:29","slug":"spiritualism-in-nineteenth-century-new-orleans-the-life-and-times-of-henry-louis-rey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48256","title":{"rendered":"Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University Press of Mississippi<\/a>
\nJanuary 2017
\n208 pages
\n25 b&w illustrations, 1 map, chronology, bibliography, index
\n6 x 9 inches
\nHardcover ISBN-13: 978-1496810083<\/p>\n

Melissa Daggett<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Modern American Spiritualism<\/a> blossomed 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<\/a> provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many s\u00e9ance<\/a> circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Trem\u00e9<\/a> and Marigny<\/a> as well as the American sector of the city. Melissa Daggett focuses on Le Cercle Harmonique, the francophone s\u00e9ance circle of Henry Louis Rey (1831\u20131894), a Creole of color<\/a> who was a key civil rights activist, author, and Civil War<\/a> and Reconstruction<\/a> leader. His life has so far remained largely in the shadows of New Orleans history, partly due to a language barrier.<\/p>\n

Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans<\/em> focuses on the turbulent years between the late antebellum period<\/a> and the end of Reconstruction. Translating and interpreting numerous primary sources and one of the only surviving registers of s\u00e9ance proceedings, Daggett has opened a window into a fascinating life as well as a period of tumult and change. She provides unparalleled insights into the history of the Creoles of color and renders a better understanding of New Orleans\u2019s complex history. The author weaves an intriguing tale of the supernatural, of chaotic post-bellum politics, of transatlantic linkages, and of the personal triumphs and tragedies of Rey as a notable citizen and medium<\/a>. Wonderful illustrations, reproductions of the original spiritual communications, and photographs, many of which have never before appeared in published form, accompany this study of Rey and his world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modern American Spiritualism blossomed 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 s\u00e9ance circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Trem\u00e9 and Marigny as well as the American sector of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,414,459,369,17,820,20],"tags":[11734,24490,11735,1438,24489,1420],"class_list":["post-48256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-family","category-history","category-louisiana","category-monographs","category-religion","category-usa","tag-henry-louis-rey","tag-le-cercle-harmonique","tag-melissa-daggett","tag-new-orleans","tag-spiritualism","tag-university-press-of-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52505,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48256\/revisions\/52505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}