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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: slave, soldier, and Lucumí leader
  • Badagry
  • The golden age
  • La Habana
  • Batallón de morenos
  • Ṣàngó Tẹ̀ Dún
  • New Lucumí from Òyó
  • Lucumí war
  • Prieto's disappearance
  • Conclusion: Prieto's legacy.