Prieto: Yoruba Kingship in Colonial Cuba During the Age of Revolutions

Author/Contributor(s):	Lovejoy, Henry B
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	02/04/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoráubâa 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 Yoráubâa speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land"--