From shipmates to soldiers : emerging Black identities in the Río de la Plata /

From shipmates to soldiers : emerging Black identities in the Río de la Plata /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Borucki, Alex, author.
Imprint:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
Description:	xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Diálogos series Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.).
Subject:	Blacks -- Race identity -- Uruguay. Blacks -- Social networks. Blacks -- History. Slavery -- History. Slavery -- Uruguay -- History. Blacks. Blacks -- Race identity. Slavery. Social conditions. Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Uruguay -- Social conditions -- 19th century. South America -- Río de la Plata. South America -- Río de la Plata Region. Uruguay. History.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10384547

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Varying Form of Title:	Emerging Black identities in the Río de la Plata
ISBN:	9780826351807 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0826351808 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780826351791 (electronic)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.

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.