Speaking with the Dead in Early America. By Erik R. Seeman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. x + 329 pp. $39.95 cloth

Both Protestant ministers and laity believed in ghosts, even if ministers—to align with their anti-Catholic theology—mostly attributed them to the delusions of the devil. In emerging American cultural changes, however, women especially forged new bonds that joined the living to the departed. [...]th...

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