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

From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la PlataAlthough it never had a plantation based economy, the Ro 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

add to the pool of new Africanist/Afrocentrist knowledge and revisionism through which huge chunks of purposefully hidden and deformed African history have been uncovered

and celebration through the artwork

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393867770

electrifying colors

310 annual salary) as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives necessitated striking out on her own as a consultant--her first small business

Throughout these interviews

Brothers from different mothers

The next chapter strives to define modern African poetic aesthetics

Ike embodied his work and his purpose to raise others up to a better life

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684157110

and they'll do whatever it takes to force her into testifying against her former cohort