YORUBA DIASPORA IN THE ATLANTI

Toyin Falola, the Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of The Culture and Customs of Nigeria.Matt D. Childs is Assistant Professor in Caribbean History at Florida State University.

Blacks in the Diaspora-Claude A. Clegg III, editorDarlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, and John McCluskey, founding editors

Acknowledgments1. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World: Methodology and ResearchMatt D. Childs and Toyin FalolaI. The Yoruba Homeland and Diaspora2. The Diaspora of Yoruba Speakers, 1650 - 1865: Dimensions and ImplicationsDavid Eltis3. The Yoruba Factor in the Trans-Atlantic Slave TradePaul E. Lovejoy4. The Enslavement of YorubaAnn O'HearII. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Americas5. Nagô and Mina: The Yoruba Diaspora in BrazilJoão José Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian6. The Yoruba in Cuba: Origins, Identities, and TransformationsMichele Reid7. Africans in a Colony of Creoles: The Yoruba in Colonial Costa RicaRussell Lohse8. Yoruba in the British Caribbean: A Comparative Perspective on Trinidad and the BahamasRosalyn Howard9. The Influential Yoruba Past in HaitiKevin RobertsIII. The Cultural Foundations of the Yoruba Diaspora10. The "Nagôization" Process in Bahian CandombléLuis Nicolau Parés11. Santería in Cuba: Tradition and TransformationChristine Ayorinde12. From Gbe to Yoruba: Ethnic Change and the Mina Nation in Rio de JaneiroMariza C. Soares13. Yoruba Family, Gender, and Kinship Roles in New World SlaveryKevin Roberts14. Revolution and Religion: Yoruba Sacred Music in Socialist CubaRobin Moore15. Reclaiming the Past: Yoruba Elements in African American ArtsBabatunde Lawal16. "Yorubaisms" in African American "Speech" PatternsAugustine H. AgwueleIV. The Return to Yorubaland17. Yoruba Liberated Slaves Who Returned to West AfricaRobin Law18. The Yoruba Diaspora in Sierra Leone's Krio SocietyC. Magbaily Fyle19. Liberated Slaves and Islam in Nineteenth-Century West AfricaGibril R. ColeBibliographyContributorsIndex