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Ivor L. Miller, « Lovejoy Henry B. — Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions », Cahiers d’études africaines, ID : 10.4000/etudesafricaines.31936
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This book contextualizes the biography of a West African forced migrant in Havana, Cuba from the 1770s to 1835. Following Prieto’s life chronologically, the eight chapters start with “Badagry”, the lucrative port controlled first by the Ọ̀yọ́ empire, then by Fon-speaking Dahomey, and once “Old Ọ̀yọ́” collapsed its subjects became victims of the Atlantic trade. Imaginably, Prieto was carried from Badagry to Jamaica in 1784 before reaching Havana in 1785. On arrival Prieto was labeled as a “Luc...