Also known as: Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World
Last updated: April 16, 2026
A corrective to Vodou-only accounts of revolutionary religion, arguing that figures like Romaine Rivière were operating through a wider sacred field that included Catholic prophecy, Marian devotion, Kongo religious inheritances, healing, talismans, and gender inversion — making the West Province insurgencies of 1791–1792 and the Trou Coffy movement legible as historically specific rather than vaguely mystical. Rey restores Romaine Rivière as the leader of one of the most formidable early insurgent movements in the colony, rooted in the mountains between Léogâne and Jacmel.
Rey's The Priest and the Prophetess is the principal study of Romaine Rivière — reconstructing his movement within a wider Atlantic history of prophetic Catholicism, insurgency, and race.
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Terry Rey. "The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World." Oxford University Press, 2017. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/rey-priest-prophetess. Accessed 2026-05-05.