In a newspaper clipping from The New York Times issue of June 23rd1881, the audience learns about the life of “The Dead Voudou Queen” named Marie Laveau. This document was created in 1881, is important to consider that there is still minimal information about Afro-Creole religions such as Voudou, and the author has a finite insight. The chosen form of medium, as a newspaper, poses boundaries to how much information can be conveyed. Because newspapers typically require abridgments of large sums of information, there are many things that the text does not reveal because it is designated as insignificant. The purpose of this article is to convey the life story of Marie Laveau and explain her significant impact on the New- Orleans communities at large. Although this is a brief biography, the text is intended for a diverse audience, including those familiar with Voudou and…show more content… When looking at this article, there is a very superficial understanding of Voudou and how Marie practiced it. For example, the author states “Adding to these qualities the fight of great beauty, no wonder that she possessed a large influence in her youth and attracted the attention of Louisiana's greatest men and most disguised visitors. She was the creator of that peculiar state of society in which there was no marrying of giving into marriage”. Although the author repeatedly mentions her significant impact on society, they also neglect to find tangible evidence as to how. Likewise, the lack of personal perspectives ( by third parties) make the text one-sided and does not provide compelling information as to why her death was momentous to the New Orleans community. One conceivable reason these perspectives were not accounted for could be attributed to the common issue of illiteracy within Afro-Creoles within the 1800s, therefore they were not able to record their own stories and create
