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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borucki, Alex, author.

Series:

Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Diálogos Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--Uruguay.

Black people.

Black people--Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)--Social networks.

Black people--Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)--History.

Slavery--Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Uruguay--History.

Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay)--Social conditions--19th century.

Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay).

Uruguay--Social conditions--19th century.

Uruguay.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : University of New Mexico Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río 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 "nations," and the lettered culture shaped their social identities. Linking specific regions of Africa to the Río 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."--Publisher's description.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826351791

0826351794

OCLC:

922925606