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

Englisch

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015

1 online resource (322 pages)

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

978-0-8263-5179-1

978-0-8263-5179-1 : 26.74 (NL)

*Electronic books

*Blacks / Race identity / Uruguay ; Blacks / Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) / History ; Blacks / Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) / Social networks ; Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) / Social conditions / 19th century ; Slavery / Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) / History ; Slavery / Uruguay / History ; Uruguay / Social conditions / 19th century ; Electronic books

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.

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