Prieto
Subtitle: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Feb 04, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781469645384
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"--
Notes: Source title: Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions (Envisioning Cuba)