The priest and the prophetess : Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the revolutionary Atlantic world / Terry Rey.
2017
F1923 .R486 2017
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Title
The priest and the prophetess : Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the revolutionary Atlantic world / Terry Rey.
Author
Rey, Terry, author.
ISBN
9780190625870 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations, map.
Call Number
F1923 .R486 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
972.9403
Summary
Shortly after a slave revolt in the North Province of the French colony of Saint-Domingue sparked the Haitian Revolution in August 1791, a free black immigrant coffee farmer and religious visionary named Romaine-la-Prophétesse launched a separate insurgency on behalf of his own beleaguered people. Leading thousands of free coloured insurgents and the slaves they liberated in the colony's West Province, Romaine achieved something that no other rebel leader ever did in the colonial history of the Americas: conquering not one, but two coastal cities: Jacmel and Leogâne. His political adviser was a French Catholic priest named Abbé Ouvière, who brokered the treaty that formally tendered to Romaine rule over the latter city. What was the nature of their relationship? In what ways was each man instrumental in broader revolutionary events in the colony?
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Shortly after a slave revolt in the North Province of the French colony of Saint-Domingue sparked the Haitian Revolution in August 1791, a free black immigrant coffee farmer and religious visionary named Romaine-la-Prophétesse launched a separate insurgency on behalf of his own beleaguered people. Leading thousands of free coloured insurgents and the slaves they liberated in the colony's West Province, Romaine achieved something that no other rebel leader ever did in the colonial history of the Americas: conquering not one, but two coastal cities: Jacmel and Leogâne. His political adviser was a French Catholic priest named Abbé Ouvière, who brokered the treaty that formally tendered to Romaine rule over the latter city. What was the nature of their relationship? In what ways was each man instrumental in broader revolutionary events in the colony?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2017).
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Print version: 9780190625849
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