From Shipmates to Soldiers : Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borucki, Alex (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Slavery.
Blacks > Race identity.
Blacks.
Slavery > Uruguay > History.
Slavery > Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) > History.
Blacks > Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) > History.
Blacks > Social networks > Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)
Blacks > Race identity > Uruguay.
Uruguay.
South America > Río de la Plata Region.
South America > Río de la Plata.
Uruguay > Social conditions > 19th century.
Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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