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

by Henry B. Lovejoy

Book Overview

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"