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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.