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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Main Author: Borucki, Alex (Author)
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Subjects:
Black people > Race identity > Uruguay.
Black people > Social networks.
Black people > History.
Slavery > History.
Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slavery > Uruguay > History.
Uruguay > Social conditions > 19th century.
Physical Description:xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Emerging Black identities in the Río de la Plata.
Format: Book
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.