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

"Romaine-la-Prophetesse led a devastating insurgency during the first year of the Haitian Revolution. His advisor was a white French Catholic priest, Abbe Ouviere. This book answers who the priest and the prophetess were, what they achieved, and what their lives tell us about the revolutionary...

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Main Author: Rey, Terry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, > 1762-1833.
Rivière, Romaine.
Rivière, Romaine > Military leadership.
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.
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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.

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