Drafts by Carolyn Morrow Long
Louisiana Cultural Vistas, 2014
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This illustrated lecture presents research on the 84 people interred in the famous tomb of Marie ... more This illustrated lecture presents research on the 84 people interred in the famous tomb of Marie Laveau, the Widow Paris, in New Orleans' St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. It also investigates the wall vault in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, Square 3, that many believe is the actual resting place of the "Voudou Queen," and debunks the two "Faux Laveau" tombs in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.
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In the 1990s, while employed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, I became f... more In the 1990s, while employed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, I became friendly with a group of homeless people living across Constitution Avenue at Federal Triangle. For several years I documented, in conversations and photographs, their lives on the street.
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African American magical and religious practices combine African origins and European influences.... more African American magical and religious practices combine African origins and European influences. A Kongo-influenced form of magic called conjure, rootwork, or hoodoo developed among enslaved people in the Anglo-Protestant Atlantic Seaboard colonies/states. The Voudou religion, combining West African traditions with Catholicism, developed among slaves and free people in Louisiana, but was driven underground around 1880 and replaced by something resembling hoodoo. By the early twentieth century, African Americans all over the United States had access to published books of rituals and charm formulae. The first books made available were translations of German, German-American, and French occult texts. Later on, the white American manufacturers of “spiritual products” created their own books and pamphlets of magical formulae. This article examines the ways in which European and European-American occult texts were distributed to practitioners of diverse magical and religious traditions and incorporated into the corpus of magical knowledge.
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The purpose of this report is to give an accurate history of the plantation of Louis Barthélémy d... more The purpose of this report is to give an accurate history of the plantation of Louis Barthélémy de Macarty père and fils in the downriver neighborhood of New Orleans now known as the Bywater—and most especially to correct some misconceptions about the Macarty Plantation House and the Macarty School.
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The life and spiritual practices of the famous New Orleans Voudou priestess Marie Laveau. Publish... more The life and spiritual practices of the famous New Orleans Voudou priestess Marie Laveau. Published as a chapter in Janet Allured and Judith Gentry, eds., Louisiana Women, University of Georgia Press, 2009.
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William Faulkner, in Absalom, Absalom, portrays the free woman of color as the “octoroon mistress... more William Faulkner, in Absalom, Absalom, portrays the free woman of color as the “octoroon mistress,” an exquisite and exotic sex slave who lives only to please her man. Faulkner uses the usual stereotypes about “plaçées” and “quadroon balls” and the white men who maintained these relationships until they married a white woman. Recent scholarly research has found that interracial couples met and formed marriage-like relationships under all sorts of circumstances, not only at balls, and that these often lasted for life with the man never taking a white wife. This premise is supported by examples from two families on which the author has done extensive genealogical research, that of Marie Laveau and that of Delphine Macarty Lalaurie.
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Throughout the nineteenth century, Voodoo was considered by the dominant American culture to be s... more Throughout the nineteenth century, Voodoo was considered by the dominant American culture to be sinful and threatening, and strong repressive measures were taken by the authorities. From the turn of the twentieth century until about the 1960s, the practice was simply seen as a fraud from which ignorant blacks needed protection. By the latter half of the twentieth century,concerns with both sin and fraud had diminished, and Voodoo was looked upon as entertainment——a tourist commodity and potential gold-mine for commercial exploitation. Finally, at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, there has been a new awareness of Voodoo as a legitimate religion.
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... Rachael Johnson, Josephine Jones, and Sophie Rey by Louisiana Writers' Project field... more ... Rachael Johnson, Josephine Jones, and Sophie Rey by Louisiana Writers' Project fieldworkers Robert McKinney and Zoe Posey, 1936-1940, folders 25 and 44, and in anewspaper article, "Voodoo Charm Found by Two Women on Mother's Grave" Item Tribune 1931. ...
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reports and interpretations of outsiders to understand Marie Laveau and
New Orleans Voudou, which leads to a seemingly endless cycle of myths
and misunderstandings. Further, recent studies only focus on Voudou
activity in the French Quarter and fail to understand that the city is not
what defines New Orleans Voudou—it is the culture, practitioners, and
Marie Laveau that do. The mysteries of Marie Laveau’s life and religion are encoded in her magick. Her legacy is embedded in the same rituals that have been passed down over the years since her death by practitioners of New Orleans Voudou. In this book, I decode some of these mysteries and make a case for a specific form of New Orleans Voudou called “Laveau Voudou” in a fresh presentation of her work. As such, the spiritual legacy of Marie Laveau is in the memory of her great name and in the inheritance of a powerful, unique magicospiritual tradition that largely defines Voudou in Louisiana today.