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Title: Abraham Lincoln and religion. general
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Spiritualism Spiritualism Spiritualists Spiritualists
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n and hisEmancipation Proclamation Every psychic researcher must admit that EMMA HARDINGE BRITTENwas probably th(k best informed and most relible historianof the Spiritualist movement during the 19th century. Shepublished two volumes of 556 and 565 pages in 1869 and 1834.Later she founded and edited the TWO WORLDS magazine inLondon. * MODERN AMERICAN SPIRITUALISM (565 pages)Published by Colby & Rich, Boston, 1869By Emma Hardinge and ^ NINETEENTH CENTURY MIRACLES (556 pages) orSpirits and Their Work in Every Country on Earth A Complete Historical Compendiumoftthe Great Movement Known as Modem Spiritualism by Emma Hardinge Britten, Author of ( 6 other books as listed) Published by Lovell. & Co. New York, 1884 Emma Hardinge was married in 1877 inEngland, her native country, to Wm. Britten. She lectured extensively in the United Statesafter t£e Civil War and in 1887 founded anduntil 1892 edited THE WO WORLDS, of London. 19 Speaking with the Dead: THE FOX SISTERS BY JEANNE MAC KIN
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DEPARTMENT OF RARE 800KS. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND PRESERVATION. UNIVERSITY The Fox familys cabin at Hydesville )F ROCHESTER LIBRARIES Imagine a cold winter night in Hydesville, a town in upstate New Yorkso small that most maps ignore it. Imagine the wind howlingthrough a rustic cabin, the blackness of night without electric light,the deep quiet of a late winter evening without cars or television orradio. Now imagine in that windy, dark cabin two young farm girls,Maggie and Katie Fox, daughters of an unhappy mother who findsconsolation in the ecstasy of evangelical religion and a father whofinds his consolation in alcohol; and imagine that on the evening ofMarch 31,1848, the separation between the world of the living andthe world of the dead is not as firm as some might believe—so thinis the veil, in fact, that those two worlds can speak to each other. www.nysarchives.org 20 Thus began what is knowntoday as the AmericanSpiritualist movement. On that March night, Maggie,eleven years o

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