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. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps
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. Uruguay. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645775

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Varying Form of Title:	Emerging Black identities in the Río de la Plata
ISBN:	9780826351791 0826351794 9780826351807 0826351808
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Borucki, Alex. From shipmates to soldiers. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015 9780826351807

Table of 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.