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Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley

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 | #2891934 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2003-10-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.08 x5.88 x8.42l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Scholarship & Stories|By Jonatales|Possessions is engrossing for all those seeking sources for the spirits abounding in the Hudson Valley. People generally bother only with a headless horseman or a man wearing a silken noose for the story. But, if you want to know where the horseman rides and what's behind all the haunting in this region, turn to Richardson's book.

|The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settl

The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim...

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