Episode #119- Who Was the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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The History of Voodoo Rituals
In the run-up to the Civil War, laws regulating the slave population and restricting interaction between different racial groups really started to tighten up. In 1850, a group of women were arrested in New Orleans while taking part in a voodoo ritual near Lake Pontchartrain. They claimed that they had been unlawfully detained and denied their freedom of religion. This touched off a series of arrests that summer and in the ensuing years. At least two of these incidences involved Marie LeVoe.
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