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]
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by Rey, Terry
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