Zoe Posey papers, 1930s.

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Zoe Posey papers, 1930s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768440618

This collection consists of handwritten twentieth-century research notes, including transcriptions of New Orleans newspaper articles dating back to the early nineteenth century, about voodoo traditions in New Orleans. Topics covered include African-American and Creole voodoo beliefs and practices, celebrations of St. John's Eve, voodoo charms, witchcraft, the Glapion and Laveau families, Marie Laveau, and Andrew Jackson.

0.5 linear feet (1 box)

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Posey, Zoe.

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Laveau, Marie, 1801-1881

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Marie Laveau (b. Sept. 10, 1801, New Orleans, LA–d. June 15, 1881, New Orleans, LA) was a New Orleans Voodoo Queen in the 19th Century. Her parents were Marguerite Henry, a free woman of color of Native American, African, and French descent, and Charles Laveau Trudeau. She was married to Jacques Paris for a year before he died; they had two daughters. After Jacques's death, Marie worked as a hair dresser to the New Orleans elite and lived with Christopher Dominick de Glapion. During h...

Glapion family.

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Laveau family.

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