Prieto: Yoruba Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Item #015188
White softcover lettered in red,8vo, 219pp. Illustrated. Inscribed on half-title by author. Fine. Centered on Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (1773-1835) a member of the West African Yoruba People, who was drafted as an enslaved soldier in Spain, then later religious leader of Cabildo in Havana, developing Santeria, and prisoner under suspicion of slave rebellion. While his fate is unknown, Lovejoy chases his evolving identity and resistance.
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