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

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rey, Terry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.