| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Series |
Caribbean studies series |
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Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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| Contents |
Arrival -- The fortified city -- Planting Abakuá in Cuba, 1830s to 1860s -- From Creole to Carabalí -- Dispersal : Abakuá exiled to Florida and Spanish Africa -- Disintegration of the Spanish empire -- Havana is the key : Abakuá in Cuban music -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Cubans in Calabar : Ékpè has one voice |
| Summary |
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ékpè, or "leopard," which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpè lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-337) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociedad Abakuá (Cuba)
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| SUBJECT |
Sociedad Abakuá (Cuba) fast |
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Secret societies -- Cuba
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Black people -- Cuba -- Social life and customs
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- Cuba.
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Black people -- Social life and customs
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Secret societies
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Geheimbund
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Geheimbund -- Schwarze -- Kuba -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Schwarze.
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Geheimbund.
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Cuba
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Kuba -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Kuba.
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Afrikaner.
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Kuba.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781604738148 |
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1604738146 |
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