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In 1791 Ha?ti, the free black coffee farmer and Catholic mystic Romaine-la-Prophétesse led a mass insurgency under revelatory instructions from the Virgin Mary, whom he claimed as his godmother. Aided by the French Catholic priest Abbé Ouivi?re, Romaine would go on to conquer two coastal cities. Through their intertwined stories, Terry Rey offers a major contribution to our understanding of the intersecting role of race and religion in the revolutionary Atlantic world.
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Hosszú leírás:
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-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 Ouvi?re, 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 would come to symbolize the enlightenment ideals of freedom and a more just social order in the eighteenth-century Caribbean.
Drawing on extensive archival research, Terry Rey offers a major contribution to our understanding of Catholic mysticism and traditional African religious practices at the time of the Haitian Revolution and reveals the significant ways in which religion and race intersected in the turbulence and triumphs of revolutionary France, Ha?ti, and early republican America.
Rey raises important questions about who scholars and Haitians should include in the country’s pantheon of national heroes and why.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: The Rise of Trou Coffy and the Jacmel Insurgent Theater
Chapter Two: Romaine-la-Prophétesse
Chapter Three: Abbé Ouvi?re
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
Conclusion
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