From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the

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
Manufacturer University of New Mexico Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of New Mexico Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-06
Format	Kindle eBook

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

You might also like...