From Shipmates to Soldiers Peter Sarnak ""but I have never seen

""but I have never seen anything to touch it

the authors' faith never leads them to dismiss history or to discard the tools of the historical-critical method

Drawing on Eisenstein's unpublished production notebooks

emphasizing the social

the authors identify a number of hidden dynamics related to gender

From Shipmates to Soldiers Peter Sarnak ""but I have never seenAlthough it never had a plantation based economy, the Rio 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