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Author Borucki, Alex, author

Title From shipmates to soldiers : emerging Black identities in the Río de la Plata / Alex Borucki
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Diálogos Series
Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Contents Introduction : Slavery, War, and Abolition in the Río de la Plata -- The Foundation of the Black Population of the Río de la Plata, 1777-1839 -- Shipmate Networks and African Identities, 1760-1810 -- 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, 1830-1860 -- Jacinto Ventura de Molina, a Black Letrado of Montevideo, 1766-1841
Summary This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index
Notes English
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Subject Black people -- Race identity -- Uruguay
Black people -- Social networks
Black people -- History.
Slavery -- History
Slavery -- Uruguay -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Black people
Black people -- Race identity
Slavery
Social conditions
SUBJECT Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Uruguay -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject South America -- Río de la Plata
Uruguay
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826351791
0826351794
Other Titles Emerging Black identities in the Río de la Plata