Priest and the Prophetess: ABBE Ouviere, Romaine Riviere, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World
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By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haiti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Prophetesse, a free black Dominican coffee farmer who dressed in women's clothes and claimed that the Virgin Mary was his godmother. Inspired by mystical revelations from the Holy Mother, he amassed a large and volatile following of insurgents who would...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0190625848
ISBN13:9780190625849
Release Date:June 2017
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:2.1" x 7.2" x 9.9"
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