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

Borucki, Alex.

From Shipmates to Soldiers : Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (322 pages) - Diálogos Series . - Diálogos Series .

Front Cover -- Diálogos Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Slavery, War, and Abolition in the Río de la Plata -- 1: The Foundation of the Black Population of the Río de la Plata, 1777-1839 -- 2: Shipmate Networks and African Identities, 1760-1810 -- 3: Leadership and Networks in Black Militias, Confraternities, and Tambos -- 4: A Plan of Their Own? Black Battalions and Caudillo Politics in Uruguay -- 5: African-Based Associations, Candombe, and the Day of Kings, 1830-1860 -- 6: Jacinto Ventura de Molina, a Black Letrado of Montevideo, 1766-1841 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

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.

9780826351791


Blacks -- Race identity -- Uruguay.
Blacks -- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Social networks.
Blacks -- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- History.
Slavery -- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- History.
Slavery -- Uruguay -- History.
Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Uruguay -- Social conditions -- 19th century.


Electronic books.

F2799.N3 -- .B678 2015eb

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