From Shipmates to Soldiers : Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata /
"Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires f...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2015]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The foundation of the Black population of the Río de la Plata, 1777-1839
- Shipmate networks and African identities
- Leadership and networks in black militias, confraternities and tambos
- A plan of their own? Black battalions and caudillo politics in Uruguay
- African-based associations, candombe, and the Day of Kings
- Jacinto Ventura de Molina, a Black letrado of Montevideo.