Author: Henry B. Lovejoy
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469645408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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 the people of the Yoruba diaspora were identified by the colonial authorities as Lucumi. Prieto's evolving identity becomes the fascinating fulcrum of the book. Drafted as an enslaved soldier for Spain, Prieto achieved self-manumission while still in the military. Rising steadily in his dangerous new world, he became the religious leader of Havana's most famous Lucumi cabildo, where he contributed to the development of the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria. Then he was arrested on suspicion of fomenting slave rebellion. Trial testimony shows that he fell ill, but his ultimate fate is unknown. Despite the silences and contradictions that will never be fully resolved, Prieto's life opens a window onto how Africans creatively developed multiple forms of identity and resistance in Cuba and in the Atlantic world more broadly.
Prieto
A Catalogue of Old, Rare and Curious Books
Author: George E. Littlefield (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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List of Books Forming the Reference Library in the Reading Room of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Catalogue
Author: New York Free Circulating Library. Bond Street Branch
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Catalogue of the Newton Free Library ...
Author: Newton Free Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Catalogue of the Library of the Oxford and Cambridge Club
Author: Oxford and Cambridge University Club, London. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Educational Pamphlets 28
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Catalogue. [With]
Author: Oxford and Cambridge university club libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Catalogue of the Guildhall Library of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: M-Z and additions to June, 1889
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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