Alex Borucki

About The Author

Alex Borucki is an associate professor of history at the University of California Irvine and the author of From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (UNM Press).

Books by Alex Borucki

From the Galleons to the Highlands

Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas

Edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis and David Wheat
The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies’ previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade. Spanish America receive...
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From Shipmates to Soldiers

Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata

By Alex Borucki
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 ...
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