Terry Rey. The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World.

With The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Terry Rey delivers a thoroughly engaging and important book. The protagonists of this richly documented study are Félix Alexandre Pascalis Ouvière, a priest who fled his native France for Saint-Domingue, and Romaine Rivière, a free black coffee planter who immigrated to Saint-Domingue from the Spanish side of the island. A self-professed...