The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

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Contents Acknowledgments / xi 1. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World: Methodology and Research / 1 Matt D. Childs and Toyin Falola I. The Yoruba Homeland and Diaspora 2. The Diaspora of Yoruba Speakers, 1650–1865: Dimensions and Implications / 17 David Eltis 3. The Yoruba Factor in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade / 40 Paul E. Lovejoy 4. The Enslavement of Yoruba / 56 Ann O’Hear II. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Americas 5. Nagô and Mina: The Yoruba Diaspora in Brazil / 77 João José Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian 6. The Yoruba in Cuba: Origins, Identities, and Transformations / 111 Michele Reid 7. Africans in a Colony of Creoles: The Yoruba in Colonial Costa Rica / 130 Russell Lohse 8. Yoruba in the British Caribbean: A Comparative Perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas / 157 Rosalyn Howard 9. The Influential Yoruba Past in Haiti / 177 Kevin Roberts III. The Cultural Foundations of the Yoruba Diaspora 10. The “Nagôization” Process in Bahian Candomblé / 185 Luis Nicolau Parés Falola_Childs,Yoruba Diaspo 2/2/05 1:34 PM Page ix 11. Santería in Cuba: Tradition and Transformation / 209 Christine Ayorinde 12. From Gbe to Yoruba: Ethnic Change and the Mina Nation in Rio de Janeiro / 231 Mariza de Carvalho Soares 13. Yoruba Family, Gender, and Kinship Roles in New World Slavery / 248 Kevin Roberts 14. Revolution and Religion: Yoruba Sacred Music in Socialist Cuba / 260 Robin Moore 15. Reclaiming the Past: Yoruba Elements in African American Arts / 291 Babatunde Lawal 16. “Yorubaisms” in African American “Speech” Patterns / 325 Augustine H. Agwuele IV. The Return to Yorubaland 17. Yoruba Liberated Slaves Who Returned to West Africa / 349 Robin Law 18. The Yoruba Diaspora in Sierra Leone’s Krio Society / 366 C. Magbaily Fyle 19. Liberated Slaves and Islam in Nineteenth-Century West Africa / 383 Gibril R. Cole Bibliography / 405 Contributors / 447 Index / 451 x contents Falola_Childs,Yoruba Diaspo 2/2/05 1:34 PM Page x ...