The Priest and the Prophetess: Abb? Ouvi?re, Romaine Rivi?re, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Terry Rey

The Priest and the Prophetess: Abb? Ouvi?re, Romaine Rivi?re, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World

Terry Rey

344 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

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By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Ha?ti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Proph?tesse, a free black Dominican coffee farmer who...

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