Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba During the Age of Revolutions
(Part of the Envisioning Cuba Series)
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This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yoruba speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land. In Havana, Prieto and most of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469645394
ISBN13:9781469645391
Release Date:February 2019
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.83 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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