Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

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. Melissa Daggett focuses on Le Cercle Harmonique, the francophone séance circle of Henry Louis Rey, a a key civil rights activist, author, and Civil War and Reconstruction leader.