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The priest and the prophetess : Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the revolutionary Atlantic world /

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By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haïti, where slaves and free Blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Prophétesse, a free Black Dominican coffee farmer who dressed in women's clothes and claimed that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rey, Terry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, > 1762-1833.
Rivière, Romaine.
Rivière, Romaine > Military leadership.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Biography.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Campaigns.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Religious aspects.
Revolutionaries > Haiti > Biography.
Soldiers > Haiti > Biography.
Priests > Haiti > Biography.
Insurgency > Haiti > History.
RELIGION > History.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
HISTORY > Africa > General.

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