LEADER 04558cam a2200529 i 4500001 99102659983506421 005 20240718073706.0 008 170324s2017 nyuab b 001 0ceng^^ 010 2016032128 020 9780190625849 |qhardcover 020 0190625848 |qhardcover 020 |z9780190625863 |qelectronic book 020 |z9780190625870 |qelectronic book 035 (NjP)10265998-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager10265998 035 (OCoLC)ocn979992657 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dYDX |dYDX |dOCLCO 042 pcc 043 nwht--- 050 00 F1923 |b.R486 2017 082 00 972.94/03 |223 084 REL033000HIS041000HIS001000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Rey, Terry, |eauthor. 245 14 The priest and the prophetess : |bAbbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the revolutionary Atlantic world / |cTerry Rey. 264 1 New York, NY : |bOxford University Press, |c[2017] 300 xii, 330 pages ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 2 "Romaine-la-Prophetesse led a devastating insurgency during the first year of the Haitian Revolution. His advisor was a white French Catholic priest, Abbe Ouviere. This book answers who the priest and the prophetess were, what they achieved, and what their lives tell us about the revolutionary Atlantic world"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 2 "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 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 go on to sack countless plantations and conquer the coastal cities of Jacmel and Léogâne. For this brief period, Romaine counted as his political adviser the white French Catholic priest and physician Abbé Ouivière, a renaissance man of cunning politics who would go on to become a pioneering figure in early American science and medicine. Brought together by Catholicism and the turmoil of the revolutionary Atlantic, the priest and the prophetess come to symbolize the enlightenment ideals of freedom and a more just social order in the 18th century Caribbean. This crucial book, based on extensive archival research, offers a major contribution to our understanding of Catholic mysticism and West African religious practices at the time of the Haitian Revolution and reveals the significant ways in which religion and race intersected in the turbulences and triumphs of revolutionary France, Haïti, and early republican America"-- |cProvided by publisher. 600 10 Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, |d1762-1833. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85253104 600 10 Rivière, Romaine. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017017011 600 10 Rivière, Romaine |xMilitary leadership. 650 0 Revolutionaries |zHaiti |vBiography. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110776 650 0 Soldiers |zHaiti |vBiography. 650 0 Priests |zHaiti |vBiography. 650 0 Insurgency |zHaiti |xHistory. 651 0 Haiti |xHistory |yRevolution, 1791-1804 |vBiography. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115307 651 0 Haiti |xHistory |yRevolution, 1791-1804 |xCampaigns. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004003758 651 0 Haiti |xHistory |yRevolution, 1791-1804 |xReligious aspects. 852 0 |bf |hF1923 |i.R486 2017 902 kl |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20170713 904 kl |ba |hm |cb |e20170713 914 (OCoLC)ocn979992657 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240710 |eprocessed |f979992657