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

"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...

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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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