THE GHASTLY HISTORIAN

Henry Louis Rey (1831-1894) was a multi-faceted individual from New Orleans. Coming from one of the city’s most prominent Afro-Creole families, he acquired a number of accomplishments during his lifetime, including: serving during the Civil War as part of the Louisiana Native Guards; a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; an outspoken activist on universal education, black male suffrage, and distribution of land by the states to heads of families; he main leader of Cercle Harmonique, a group of Afro-Creole men based in New Orleans who practiced Spiritualism between 1858 and 1877. This picture is a current view of what was once Henry Louis Rey’s home on N. Villere Street in New Orleans, where seances sometimes took place, in the 1850s and 1860s.

Images courtesy of New Orleans Historical, via The Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans
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