| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Changing History: Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies of Color in the Nineteenth Century. By Philip A. Howard. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xxvi, 227 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-2210-6.)

Historians of the Americas have long been curious about the process through which settlers, free and unfree, adapted to their new homelands. More especially, they have been keen to trace the process whereby cultural habits and practices were transplanted from one society to another. Easier to illustrate among the elite and the governing orders, this process of cultural transfer is more difficult to plot among the dispossessed. And nowhere is this more striking than among slaves and their descendants. Yet an understanding of slave culture is central to any understanding of African adaptation to the Americas, and African adaptation cannot be truly understood without some insight into cultural traditions. . . .

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