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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miller, Ivor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sociedad Abakuá (Cuba)
Geheimbund.
Schwarze.
Geheimbund > Schwarze > Kuba > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Geheimbund
Secret societies.
Black people > Social life and customs.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Societes secretes > Cuba.
Black people > Cuba > Social life and customs.
Secret societies > Cuba.
Kuba.
Afrikaner.
Kuba > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Cuba.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 Ékpe, or "leopard," which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpe lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to
Descripción Física:1 online resource (432 pages): illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
ISBN:9781604738148

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