592. Carolyn Long on Marie Laveau and Madame LaLaurie
592. Today we talk to author Carolyn Morrow Long about two of her books, one on Marie Laveau and the other on Madame LaLaurie. A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau.
"Legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty,
charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie
Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever
victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the
Roman Catholic Church. In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths
and complete fabrication, Carolyn Morrow Long explores the unique
social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau’s
African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century
New Orleans."
Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House.
"A meticulous researcher of New Orleans history, Carolyn Long
disentangles the threads of fact and legend that have intertwined over
the decades. Was Madame Lalaurie a sadistic abuser? Mentally ill? Or
merely the victim of an unfair and sensationalist press? Using carefully
documented eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family
letters, Long recounts Lalaurie’s life from legal troubles before the
fire through the scandal of her exile to France to her death in Paris in
1849."
"Legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty,
charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie
Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever
victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the
Roman Catholic Church. In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths
and complete fabrication, Carolyn Morrow Long explores the unique
social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau’s
African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century
New Orleans."
Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House.
"A meticulous researcher of New Orleans history, Carolyn Long
disentangles the threads of fact and legend that have intertwined over
the decades. Was Madame Lalaurie a sadistic abuser? Mentally ill? Or
merely the victim of an unfair and sensationalist press? Using carefully
documented eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family
letters, Long recounts Lalaurie’s life from legal troubles before the
fire through the scandal of her exile to France to her death in Paris in
1849."
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