Priest and the Prophetess: ABBE Ouviere, Romaine Riviere, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Rey Terry

For this brief period, Romaine counted as his political adviser the white French Catholic priest and physician Abb� 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.