Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
by
Emily Suzanne Clark
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the...