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"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.

Blacks --- Slavery --- Race identity --- Social networks. --- History. --- Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) --- Uruguay --- Social conditions --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Anatolikē Dēmokratia tēs Oyrougouaēs --- Cisplatine Province --- Dēmokratia Anatolika tou Oyrougouaē --- Dēmokratia Anatolika tou Potamou Oyrougouaē --- Eastern Republic of Uruguay --- Estado Cisplatino --- Gweriniaeth Ddwyreiniol Uruguay --- Iztochna republika Urugvaĭ --- Oriental Republic of Uruguay --- Oyrougouaē --- Provincia Cisplatina --- Provincia Oriental del Río de la Plata --- Provincia Uruguaya del Tape --- Republic East of the Uruguay --- Republic East of the Uruguay River --- República O. del Uruguay --- República Oriental del Uruguay --- Río de la Plata, Provincia Oriental del --- Uruguai --- Urugṿai --- Urugṿay --- Uruhvaĭ --- Uskhodni︠a︡i︠a︡ Rėspublika Uruhvaĭ --- Východní Republika Uruguay --- Ουρουγουαη --- Ανατολική Δημοκρατία της Ουρουγουάης --- Δημοκρατία Ανατολικά του Ποταμού Ουρουγουάη --- Δημοκρατία Ανατολικά του Ουρουγουάη --- Уругвай --- Усходняя Рэспубліка Уругвай --- Източна република Уругвай --- Black persons --- Black people --- Enslaved persons