| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau. By Martha Ward. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. xviii, 246 pp. $26.00, ISBN 1-57806-629-8.)

The University of New Orleans anthropology and urban studies professor Martha Ward has written a creative, soulful, and spirited biography of an elusive historical subject—the woman, or women as it turns out, who called themselves Marie Laveau, the legendary nineteenth-century queen of the New Orleans voodoos. The first Marie Laveau was born a free woman of color in 1801. Her complex personal relationships, including a long period of concubinage with Christopher Glapion, a white man who attempted to change his racial identity in order to live peaceably with Laveau, form the basis of the early chapters. Her daughter, Marie Eucharist, born in 1827, also called herself Marie Laveau and acted in the capacity of a voodoo priestess from the late antebellum period until her disappearance from the city sometime during Reconstruction.

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