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Alexander Grelier 10/4/18 Spiritualism and Spiritual Communication in the Reconstruction Era Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey After reading a passage from the New Orleans Republican published in 1874, I realized how prevalent the idea of spiritualism and afterlife became in the Reconstruction Era. The interest to communicate with spirits really came to be straight after the Civil War because of the countless deaths and losses of friends and family. The author of the article,"Spiritualism and its Tenets," speaks about the communication with spirits through a medium, what he believes afterlife is like, and the vast differences between the spiritual and "real" world. He explains that using mediums, such as a seance in the picture above, doesn't really allow you to choose who you talk to because of how complex the spiritual world really is in comparison to the real world. I did my own research to find...
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