Carlottta Lucumi is one of the leaders of the bloody slave rebellion at Triunvirato plantation in Cuba in 1843. Using music & talking drum, she sent coded messages to nearby slaves coordinating the rebellion. They destroyed 5 sugar plantations & several coffee & cattle estates.👇 
She is called Carlota Lucumi for belonging to the Lucumi ethnic group made up of Afro-cubans of Yoruba descent. Lucumi was used to describe Yoruba-speaking people during the Atlantic slave trade & according Historian Lovejoy, it was 1st used in the Benin kingdom in 15th century👇
Carlota Lucumi is said to have been born & raised in the Benin kingdom untill about the age of 10 when she was kidnapped & moved to Cuba as a slave. It believed that the Benin used "lucumi" to refer to its Yoruba neighbours & the Portuguese adopted it for southern Yorubaland.👇
Historian Sandoval alluded to the fact that "lucumies" were employed in the palace administration of the Benin kingdom & to this day, the variant of Yoruba language spoken by the Odiani clan in Delta state is called Olukumi by neighbouring communities.
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