Two men who met at Trou Coffy, a coffee plantation in the mountains above Leogane, organise Rey's account of religion in the opening year of the Haitian Revolution. Romaine Riviere, an immigrant from the Spanish side of Hispaniola who took the name Romaine-la-Prophetesse and spoke as the medium of his godmother the Virgin, led several thousand insurgents and captured Jacmel and Leogane, cities no other Black insurgent leader in the colonial Americas ever held. Abbe Ouviere, a French priest and physician, advised him, then went to Paris to lobby on behalf of slaveholders and later settled in Philadelphia. Rey works from colonial correspondence, parish records and the priest's own writings, and notes how much thicker the archive is for the literate white man, an unevenness he takes from Trouillot. Against a scholarship that makes Vodou the sole religion of resistance and Catholicism a colonial imposition, he argues that Catholic devotion also armed insurgency.