Revolutionaries: Carlota Lucumi

Womanica - A podcast by iHeartPodcasts and Wonder Media Network

Carlota Lucumí (unknown - 1843) led a violent uprising against plantation owners in Cuba. She was kidnapped from Yorubaland and forced into slave labor in Cuba. To organize a rebellion against her enslavers, she found covert ways to communicate like sending messages through the music of a talking drum.

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