@booklet {7553, title = {The Spirit World: Its Inhabitants, Nature, and Philosophy}, year = {1879}, note = {

2nd ed. Boston, MA: Colby \& Rich, 1880.

}, month = {1879}, publisher = {Colby \& Rich}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Heaven as eutopia presented as non-fiction. There are different heavens for different countries, a heaven for Native American Indians, and, within the U.S. heaven, a separate one for African Americans. There is also a hierarchy of heavens and people move up the hierarchy as they progress, and it is noted that the color of African Americans becomes lighter as they progress. Details are given of the cities and the housing including the furniture, but the higher heavens are more rural than urban. Robert Dale Owen (1801-77), the son of Robert Owen (1771-1858), is represented as communicating with the protagonist through a medium and, though he is in a lower heaven, he visits higher heavens and reports on them. The eighteenth heaven manufactures goods for the others.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Eugene Crowell, M.D. (1817-94)} }