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1868 - Marie Laveau, the "Queen of the Voodoo" dethroned.

On this day in 1868, Marie Laveau, the “Queen of the Voodoo,” was dethroned because of old age. Believed to be born in New Orleans in 1794 and died in New Orleans on June 15th, 1881. A free woman of color as well as a Quadroon (African, Indian, French and Spanish), she became the most famous and powerful Voodoo Queen in the world.

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