Prieto : Yorùbá kingship in colonial Cuba during the age of revolutions /

Centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yorùbá people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by wh...

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Main Author:	Lovejoy, Henry B. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:	Envisioning Cuba.
Subjects:	Prieto, Juan Nepomuceno, > approximately 1773- approximately 1835. Yoruba (African people) > Cuba > 19th century > Biography. Yoruba (African people) > Cuba > Social conditions > 19th century. Yoruba (African people) > Cuba > History > 19th century. Cuba > Race relations > History > 19th century.

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Summary:	Centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yorùbá people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yorùbá speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land.
Physical Description:	xv, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781469645384 1469645386 9781469645391 1469645394