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Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau

by Jewell Parker Rhodes · 1993

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The story of Marie Laveau, the character featured on American Horror Story: Coven.

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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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisreligionreligionMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of thisdiversitydiversityMore like thisLess of this
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New OrleansNew OrleansMore like thisLess of thisAmerican SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 436 pages

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