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

"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 th...

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Main Author:	Rey, Terry (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, > 1762-1833. Rivìere, Romaine > Military leadership. Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, > 1762-1833 Rivière, Romaine Revolutionaries > Haiti > Biography. Soldiers > Haiti > Biography. Priests > Haiti > Biography. Insurgency > Haiti > History. Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Biography. Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Campaigns. Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Religious aspects. Révolutionnaires > Haïti > Biographies. Révoltes > Haïti > Histoire. Haïti > Histoire > 1791-1804 (Révolution) > Biographies. Haïti > Histoire > 1791-1804 (Révolution) > Campagnes et batailles. Haïti > Histoire > 1791-1804 (Révolution) > Aspect religieux. HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico. Command of troops Insurgency Military campaigns Priests War > Religious aspects Revolutionaries Soldiers Haiti 1791-1804 Electronic books. collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies.
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Table of Contents:

Chapter One: The Rise of Trou Coffy and the Jacmel Insurgent Theater
Chapter Two: Romaine-la-Prophétesse
Chapter Three: Abbé Ouvière
Chapter Four: Trou Coffy and the Léogâne Insurgent Theater
Chapter Five: Sacerdotal Subversion in Saint-Domingue
Chapter Six: The Priest, the Prophetess, and the Fall of Trou Coffy
Chapter Seven: An Abbot's Atlantic Adventures
Chapter Eight: Dr. Pascalis and the Making of American Medicine
Chapter Nine: The Prophetess in Fantasy and Imagination.