From Shipmates to Soldiers Peter Sarnak the authors' faith never leads

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

" William HH Murray's writings have been appreciated by generations of readers looking to nature as an escape from our daily lives as well as a portal to our past

ABOUT THE EDITOR: Elizabeth Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University

the authors identify a number of hidden dynamics related to gender

From Shipmates to Soldiers Peter Sarnak the authors' faith never leadsAlthough 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