In the 1850’s and 1860’s when Allan Kardec published his books, the United States was not yet ready to accept it. The seances and parlor parties where a group of people were interested in what a spirit might say was one thing. But to accept the philosophy was another. The United States was being torn apart by it’s civil war where one of it’s causes may be said to revolve around slavery. To accept the idea that a person could be white in this life but black in a previous or future life was too much. To be a free man in this life and a slave in another crossed a societal boundary that would take more than 200 years too be erased. So like a seed of thought thrown upon an infertile land of minds, the seed could not grow. But the seed of Spiritism was blown to far away places that had a much more fertile soil to grow where the differences between black and white were not as much an obstacle.
