Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau by Jewell P. Rhodes

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Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau

by Jewell P. Rhodes

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I enjoyed this fictionalized biography a lot. It's about Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. She's still considered a "folk hero" (I guess that's the right term) there, or at least she was last time I visited the city. A great book about her and her life. (

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herebedragons | Jan 27, 2007 |

Very well written, made me what to know more about Maire and Voodoo. (

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New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century: a potent mix of whites, Creoles, free blacks, and African slaves, a city pulsing with crowds, commerce, and an undercurrent of secret power. The source of this power is the voodoo religion, and its queen is Marie Laveau, the notorious voodooienne, worshipped and feared by blacks and whites alike.

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