UID:
almahu_9948206423702882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
ISBN:
9780190625870 (ebook) :
Content:
Shortly after a slave revolt in the North Province of the French colony of Saint-Domingue sparked the Haitian Revolution in August 1791, a free black immigrant coffee farmer and religious visionary named Romaine-la-Prophétesse launched a separate insurgency on behalf of his own beleaguered people. Leading thousands of free coloured insurgents and the slaves they liberated in the colony's West Province, Romaine achieved something that no other rebel leader ever did in the colonial history of the Americas: conquering not one, but two coastal cities: Jacmel and Leogâne. His political adviser was a French Catholic priest named Abbé Ouvière, who brokered the treaty that formally tendered to Romaine rule over the latter city. What was the nature of their relationship? In what ways was each man instrumental in broader revolutionary events in the colony?
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190625849
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
