Melissa Daggett, Houston, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA is an instructor of United States history at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas. Her work has appeared in Louisiana History.
Melissa Daggett's unrivaled grasp of a voluminous collection of
French-language spiritualist texts makes Spiritualism in
Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis
Rey a must-read for anyone interested in the city's multifaceted
religious culture with its links to the North, the Caribbean, and
Europe. With Henry Louis Rey as her focus, the author adds a
valuable new chapter to religious studies while making an important
contribution to the historiography of the city's Afro-Creole
Francophone community. With this first book-length study of New
Orleans spiritualism, Daggett joins a new generation of revisionist
scholars who view the movement seriously and consider its vision
for the future as important as its concern for the past. As Daggett
makes abundantly clear, her history of New Orleans spiritualism and
Henry Louis Rey is long overdue.--Caryn Cossé Bell, author of
Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in
Louisiana, 1718-1868
If you've ever wondered about the challenge of telling the story of
New Orleans's free people of color, consider the surprising value
of a book like Melissa Daggett's Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century
New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey. . . . After
exhaustive research that included translating many records from
French, author Daggett gained a glimpse into a culture that
expressed its hopes, fears, and even activism through words
believed to hail from the afterlife.--David Lee Simmons "The New
Orleans Advocate"
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