nanshe-of-nina: WOMEN’S HISTORY † MARIE LAVEAU (10 September 1794 or 1801 - 16 June 188
nanshe-of-nina:WOMEN’S HISTORY † MARIE LAVEAU (10 September 1794 or 1801 - 16 June 1881)Marie-Catherine Laveau was a Louisiana Creole woman and practiconer of Vodou. Records indicate that Laveau’s parents were both free biracial people of color. In 1819, she married an immigrant from Haiti named Jacques or Santiago, who disappeared in 1820. She later became the lover of a white man named Christophe Dominick Duminy de Glapion, by whom she had seven children, though only two daughters survived until adulthood. Folklore claims that she earned a living as a liquor importer or hairdresser. Most of Marie-Catherine Laveau’s life is often conflated with that of her daughters, Marie-Heloïse-Euchariste and Marie-Philomène. -- source link
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