The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

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Index Page numbers in italics refer to charts or illustrations. 451 Abeokuta, 46, 57, 59, 62– 67, 71, 357, 371– 372, 397– 403 Afro-Brazilian intelligentsia, 194–198 Afro-Brazilian religion. See Candomblé Afro-Creole antagonism, 203 Akoko, 29, 58 Aku, 41– 42, 368 –375 Aku Kingdom, 42, 368 –369 Anago, 42, 81, 187–188 Anglicanism, 58, 168, 358 Anglo-Spanish Court of Mixed Commission, 19 Arawak Indians, 299 architecture, 255, 259, 292, 299 –300, 319, 361, 364 Armenteros, Enrique Hernández, 260 Bahamas, 58, 164–170 Bahia, 28, 34; revolt in, 46; slave trade,77–99 Bahian merchants, 77, 87, 235 Bantu ancestry, 197, 232, 268, 271, 287, 297– 298, 318 Baptists, 163–164, 168 beadwork, 303–304, 321 Behrendt, Stephen D., 2, 18, 24, 38 Bight of Benin, 17–29, 36, 40–51, 80, 113, 131, 157, 178 –181, 226, 231–237, 293, 349, 353 Black Arts Movement, 311 Brazil, 10, 77–105, 252–253, 350 Brazilian Congress, 195–196 British Mixed Commission Court, 7 brotherhoods, 98 –99, 189, 233–235, 239, 241, 258 burial. See funeral rites Cabildos de nación, 116 –118 Candomblé, 8, 9 –10, 92, 98 –99; religious houses and, 237–242; worshipers of, 105, 185–206, 326 canto (inauguration ceremony), 86 –87, 96 – 97, 189, 191 Caribbean: British, 27, 38, 157–170; French, 40, 65; Spanish, 32, 113 Castro, Fidel, 11, 122, 265–266, 274, 277, 281 Catholicism, 12, 98 –99, 118 –120, 143, 180– 181, 188, 220, 224, 238 –239, 253–254, 256, 276 –277, 305, 335, 357–358; in the Bahamas, 165; in Trinidad, 162–164. See also saints; Santería Center for Investigation and Development of Cuban Music (CIDMUC), 277 Falola_Childs,Yoruba Diaspo 2/2/05 1:34 PM Page 451 Changó, 211–215, 219, 220, 228 Christianity, 12, 41, 51, 64– 65, 84, 119, 153, 160–163, 209, 219 –221, 239, 253–255, 281, 294–295, 306, 310, 335–338, 358 – 360, 370–372, 378, 383–393, 395–397, 400. See also Anglicanism; Baptists; Catholicism ; Christian Missionary Society; Protestantism Christianus Quintus, 135–136, 138, 146 Church Missionary Society (CMS), 58, 62– 64, 358, 371–372, 383, 386, 391, 393– 394. See also missionaries Church of Santa Efigênia, 239, 241 Church of England, 394 Cobolo, 386 –390 Cobolo War, 388 Cole, Gibril, 12, 373–374 communism, 11, 266 Communist Party, 261, 264–265, 269 –274, 278, 280 Costa Rica, 9, 130–147 Creole culture, 3, 33–34, 102, 130–147, 329; identity and, 10, 33–34, 163, 169, 172, 174, 179, 186, 192–194, 222, 328; language in, 328 –334; slaves and, 87–88, 93, 170, 255 Creolization, 3– 4, 17, 34 Crowther, Adjai, 386 –388, 393–395 Cuba, 4, 6 –9, 20, 32–34, 39 – 40, 42, 53–54, 71; middle class in, 262–266, 281 Cuban radio, 263. See also radio stations Cuban revolution, 11, 122–123, 260–282 cult house, 185–187, 190–192, 194, 199 –203, 217, 221, 241 cultural negotiation, 18, 87, 159 –160, 232, 372; Afro-Cuban, 120–124, 209 –218; Nagô and, 81–84, 191–194, 201–203 Curtin, Philip D., 2, 13, 22, 69, 71–72, 106 – 107, 125–126, 170, 178, 182, 316 –317, 319, 321, 401 Dahomey, 5– 6, 23–25, 27–28, 37, 42– 43, 53, 59, 72, 81, 112–114, 133, 151, 178, 193, 205, 234, 349, 362, 364 dance, 169, 185, 192, 210, 215, 340, 375–377; in Cuba, 117–120, 121–122, 126, 129, 263–264, 267–268, 274–282. See also juba dance; stick dance Davies, Carole Boyce, 13, 171 death penalty, 96 The Democratic Republic of Congo, 303 descent, 250–251 divination, 41, 98, 101–103, 162, 200, index 452 211–215, 216 –218, 222, 228, 232, 326, 338. See also Ifa divination double consciousness, 13, 315, 380 drumming, 84, 123, 189, 279, 335, 340; sacred, 261–264, 268, 283, 319; secular, 215, 274 Du Bois, W.E.B., 1–2, 13, 304–305, 315, 324, 325 Durnham, Katherine, 305–306 Echeuro, Michael J. C., 13, 172, 364 Egba, 21, 34, 50, 57, 59 – 65, 115, 168 –169, 357, 371, 397 Egungun Mask Performance, 307 Elegguá, 120, 211–215, 266 emancipation. See manumission enslavement, 3, 6 –12, 19, 47–51, 67– 69, 130– 132, 136 –139, 146, 160–163; process of, 56 – 61, 177–181; resistance to, 62– 63, 83, 92 esusu (savings club), 89 –90, 379 –380, 382 family structure. See kinship Findlay, Alexander, 387–389 Florida, 164–165, 301, 303...