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Zusatztext Tracing the collaboration and divergence of two remarkable figuresone a defrocked French priest, the other an African-descended prophetessTerry Rey brilliantly illuminates the role of popular Catholicism as an intellectual force in the revolutionary Atlantic world. Along the way, Rey resurrects little-known life histories of the Haitian Revolution. Deeply researched and engagingly written, this is micro-history at its very best. Informationen zum Autor Terry Rey is Associate Professor of Religion at Temple University. Klappentext In 1791 Haïti, 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 Ouivière, 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Ouvière, 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, Haïti, and early republican America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 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 Conclusion Bibliography ...
