From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the

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From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (Diálogos Series)

Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the RÃo de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. 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. The author shows how the enslaved Africans created social identities based on their common experiences, ranging from surviving together the Atlantic and coastal forced passages on slave vessels to serving as soldiers in the independence-era black battalions. In addition to the slave trade and the military, their participation in black lay brotherhoods, African â€œnations,â€ and the lettered culture shaped their social identities. Linking specific regions of Africa to the RÃo de la Plata region, the author also explores the ties of the free black and enslaved populations to the larger society in which they found themselves.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alex Borucki is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Abolicionismo y trÃ¡fico de esclavos en Montevideo tras la fundaciÃ³n republicana (1829â€“1853) and coauthor of Esclavitud y trabajo: Un estudio sobre los afrodescendientes en la frontera uruguaya, 1835â€“1855, both published in Uruguay.

Country	USA
Author	Alex Borucki
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	First
EISBN	9780826351791
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	University of New Mexico Press
Manufacturer	University of New Mexico Press
NumberOfPages	321
PublicationDate	2015-09-06
Publisher	University of New Mexico Press
ReleaseDate	2015-09-06
Studio	University of New Mexico Press

From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (Diálogos Series)

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