An edition of Prieto (2018)
Prieto
Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
By Henry B. Lovejoy
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Publish Date
Feb 04, 2019
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Language
eng
Pages
240
Description:
"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"--