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Vodou, Hoodoo & African Diasporic Religions

A New Orleans Voudou Priestess

The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau

by Carolyn Morrow Long

The most thorough documentary biography of Marie Laveau, built from archival records to separate the historical free woman of colour from the legends that grew around her. Essential for the history of New Orleans Voodoo.

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