Prieto: Yorùbá kingship in colonial Cuba during the age of revolutions
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
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Envisioning Cuba
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| Further subjects: | B
Yoruba (African people) ; Social conditions
B Race Relations B Yoruba (African people) (Cuba) 19th century Biography B Cuba Race relations History 19th century B History B Cuba B Biographies B Yoruba (African people) (Cuba) Social conditions 19th century B BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Historical B Prieto, Juan Nepomuceno (approximately 1773- approximately 1835) B Yoruba (African people) B HISTORY ; Latin America ; Mexico B Yoruba (African people) (Cuba) History 19th century |
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| Summary: | 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 "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1469645408 |