TY - BOOK AU - Borucki,Alex TI - From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata T2 - Diálogos Series SN - 9780826351791 AV - F2799.N3 -- .B678 2015eb PY - 2015/// CY - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - Blacks -- Race identity -- Uruguay KW - Blacks -- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Social networks KW - Blacks -- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- History KW - Slavery -- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- History KW - Slavery -- Uruguay -- History KW - Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Social conditions -- 19th century KW - Uruguay -- Social conditions -- 19th century KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4012447 ER -