Alex Borucki
Biographic Data
| ID | 694869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Borucki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Borucki |
| SIGNATURE | BORUCKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9863-7977 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nota de investigación: Los enterramientos en el Caserío de los Filipinos, o Caserío de los Negros, de Montevideo
Las reflexiones que siguen en esta nota intentan relacionar narrativamente lo que sabemos sobre el referido caserío a partir de documentos producidos cuando este sitio funcionaba como hospital, prisión, y lugar de enterramiento, con la investigación arqueológica reciente y el análisis de ADN producidos tras los hallazgos logrados por el equipo liderado por los arqueólogos Camilo Collazo, José López Mazz, y Octavio Nadal en 2024. Estos han sido re…
Paths to Deregulating the Slave Trade in the Spanish Empire, 1748–1789
The War of Jenkins’ Ear (from 1739 to 1748), more accurately known in Spanish as the “Guerra del Asiento,” marked the end of the Spanish Crown’s authorization of the British monopoly of the South Sea Company to deliver captive Africans to the Spanish Americas. The end of the British Asiento led to four decades of experimentation by various actors within the Spanish Empire trying to reestablish and expand the slave trade, which many Spanish politi…
Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (16th-20th Centuries)
Paulina L. Alberto. Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina
Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700 , by Alejandro García-Montón
The Impact of the American Revolutionary War on the Slave Trade to Cuba
Scholars intent on considering the American Revolution's relationship to and influence on systems of slavery must be sure to look outside of the United States. In mid-September 1783, the schooner Eagle , captained by David Miller, landed 104 enslaved Africans in Charleston. This is the first known U.S.-flagged transatlantic slave voyage arriving in the United States after independence. Before bringing these captives from Africa, Miller had conduc…
Tráfico estadounidense de esclavos al Río de la Plata y los circuitos de la plata más allá del Atlántico, 1798-1809
Si bien la trata de esclavos llevados por buques de Estados Unidos hacia el Río de la Plata duró solo doce años, entre 1798 y 1809, los comerciantes estadounidenses enviaron más cautivos directamente desde África a Buenos Aires y Montevideo (en lugar de hacerlo de manera indirecta a través de Brasil) que cualquier otro grupo nacional de mercaderes entre 1777 y 1812. Este artículo examina las conexiones de la trata de esclavos con la circulación d…
Transimperial Networks of Slave Trading, Piracy, and Empire Building in the Iberian Atlantic
This essay reviews the following works:The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil. Edited by Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 230. 24.10 paper. ISBN: 9781558765931
The Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations: Commerce, Society, and Politics
Años de tráfico de esclavos hacia el Río de la Plata De la fundación de Buenos Aires a los «colonos» africanos de Montevideo, 1585-1835
Es común leer que la esclavitud no fue tan central para la sociedad rioplatense como lo fue en Estados Unidos, Cuba, y Brasil, o que el número de africanos esclavizados que llegaron al Río de la Plata no fue tan significativo como lo fue para las sociedades de esos países. En pos de dosificar estas generalizaciones, y con el objetivo de llegar tanto a investigadores de esta temática como a especialistas en otras áreas de la historia rioplatense, …
African Experiences in the Slave Routes to the Rio de la Plata During the Viceregal Era
Thinking About Blackness in the Pacific
Anthony Jerry discusses the history and challenges for recognitions of Black Mexico and the broader Pacific region of Latin America. Jerry describes his research on a Black Mexican community of Costa Chica and its complex racial identity development. Responding to Jerry's presentation, Alex Borucki describes the potential value of conducting comparative research that connects the movements of, as well as the locations where, Black communities dev…
La Confederación Argentina y sus subalternos: Integración estatal, política y derechos en el Buenos Aires posindependiente (1820-1860)
This book connects subaltern studies, Indigenous history, the history of the African diaspora, and gender studies by comprehensively examining the relationship of the government of the province of Buenos Aires led by Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829–52) with various subaltern groups. Ricardo Salvatore asserts that Rosas retained power and consistent popular support by controlling the territory through war, disseminating propaganda (via print culture an…
Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay
In this foundational work of the burgeoning scholarship on colonial Paraguay, Shawn Austin focuses on the Guaraní outside the Jesuit missions, those living in reducciones in Asunción and in areas between the missions. He is the first historian to systematically use judicial files, which show female litigants as well as Africans and their descendants, to examine how the Guaraní interacted with the Spanish and Africans in sixteenth- and seventeenth…
The U.S. slave ship Ascension in the Río de la Plata: Slave routes and circuits of silver in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic and beyond
From 1777 to 1812, slave ships carried nearly 70,000 captives to the Rio de la Plata; however, the main slave routes leading to Buenos Aires and Montevideo did not depart from Africa. The traffic d
El tabaco y la esclavitud en la rearticulación imperial ibérica (s. XV-XX)
This edited volume examines how tobacco commercialization and taxation contributed to support the Iberian Atlantic monarchies, particularly focusing on how the early modern Spanish and Portuguese crowns and bureaucracies benefited from the tobacco monopoly. While the core chapters examine the estanco (royal tobacco monopoly) and the impact of this institution in the financial history of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, other contributions incl…
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
Randy M. Browne offers the most comprehensive account of the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants in Berbice, part of present-day Guyana, after this colony transitioned from Dutch to British rule. In this relatively little-studied society, slavery rose exponentially before the 1807 British prohibition of the transatlantic slave trade. Thereafter, Berbice experienced policies of “amelioration” of slavery typical of the British Caribbea…
From Colonial Performers to Actors of ‘American Liberty’: Black Artists in Bourbon and Revolutionary Río de la Plata
From the late eighteenth century through most of the nineteenth, Buenos Aires and Montevideo were hosts to a joint theatrical circuit characterized by the regular comings and goings of impresarios, artisans, musicians, and actors between the two cities. The military conflicts that shaped this period actually encouraged these connections, as they stimulated both exile and repatriation between one locale and the other. Africans, and particularly th…
Black Cultural Production in the Nineteenth Century
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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016
Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed inclu…
Patterns in the intercolonial slave trade across the Americas before the nineteenth century
The slave trade within the Americas, after the initial disembarkation of African captives in the New World, has received scant attention from historians, especially before the abolition of the transatlantic traffic. This article examines such intra-American trafficking as an introduction to the digital project Final Passages: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database, which aims to document evidence of slave voyages throughout the New World. This a…
Across imperial boundaries: Black social networks across the Iberian South Atlantic, 1760–1810
Rethinking the African Diaspora in the Americas urges scholars to look beyond where Africans came from and where they first disembarked in order to integrate the transimperial dimension. Social networks connecting black communities throughout the Americas constituted an additional feature of the black experience that shaped the political, social, economic, and cultural features of African diasporic communities and the larger societies in which th…
From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America
Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Crowd-Sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 1808–1862
Between 1808 and 1862, officers primarily from the British navy liberated approximately 175,000 enslaved Africans from transatlantic slavers. Information on more than half of this group has survived in bound ledger books. Based on the assessment of extant data for more than 92,000 Liberated Africans whose information was copied in at times duplicate and triplicate form in both London- and Freetown-based registers, this essay explores the pitfalls…
The Slave Trade to the Río de la Plata, 1777–1812: Trans-Imperial Networks and Atlantic Warfare
Atlantic European empires faced reform and centralization in the second half of the eighteenth century at a time when Spanish American dominions were challenged by British and Portuguese interests
Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Crowd-Sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 1808–1862
Between 1808 and 1862, officers primarily from the British navy liberated approximately 175,000 enslaved Africans from transatlantic slavers. Information on more than half of this group has survived in bound ledger books. Based on the assessment of extant data for more than 92,000 Liberated Africans whose information was copied in at times duplicate and triplicate form in both London- and Freetown-based registers, this essay explores the pitfalls…
The ‘African Colonists’ of Montevideo: New Light on the Illegal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro and the Río de la Plata (1830–42)
New archival evidence from Montevideo reveals a twofold operation that brought enslaved Africans to Rio de Janeiro in the era of the illegal slave trade. This pattern emerged after the negotiation of the only – and largely unsuccessful – Anglo-Brazilian treaty against this traffic (1826) and the independence of Uruguay from Brazil (1825), which led to the foundation of the Uruguayan state in 1830. This operation also disguised the shipment of Afr…
Trans-imperial History in the Making of the Slave Trade to Venezuela, 1526-1811
The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of knowledge about the transatlantic slave trade, both through research on specific sections of this traffic and through the consolidation of datasets into a single online resource: Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (hereafter Voyages Database ). This collective project has elucidated in great detail the slave trading routes across the Atlantic and the broad African orig…
Across imperial boundaries: Black social networks across the Iberian South Atlantic, 1760–1810
Rethinking the African Diaspora in the Americas urges scholars to look beyond where Africans came from and where they first disembarked in order to integrate the transimperial dimension. Social networks connecting black communities throughout the Americas constituted an additional feature of the black experience that shaped the political, social, economic, and cultural features of African diasporic communities and the larger societies in which th…
The U.S. slave ship Ascension in the Río de la Plata: Slave routes and circuits of silver in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic and beyond
From 1777 to 1812, slave ships carried nearly 70,000 captives to the Rio de la Plata; however, the main slave routes leading to Buenos Aires and Montevideo did not depart from Africa. The traffic d
Patterns in the intercolonial slave trade across the Americas before the nineteenth century
The slave trade within the Americas, after the initial disembarkation of African captives in the New World, has received scant attention from historians, especially before the abolition of the transatlantic traffic. This article examines such intra-American trafficking as an introduction to the digital project Final Passages: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database, which aims to document evidence of slave voyages throughout the New World. This a…
The Impact of the American Revolutionary War on the Slave Trade to Cuba
Scholars intent on considering the American Revolution's relationship to and influence on systems of slavery must be sure to look outside of the United States. In mid-September 1783, the schooner Eagle , captained by David Miller, landed 104 enslaved Africans in Charleston. This is the first known U.S.-flagged transatlantic slave voyage arriving in the United States after independence. Before bringing these captives from Africa, Miller had conduc…
Transimperial Networks of Slave Trading, Piracy, and Empire Building in the Iberian Atlantic
This essay reviews the following works:The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil. Edited by Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 230. 24.10 paper. ISBN: 9781558765931
From Colonial Performers to Actors of ‘American Liberty’: Black Artists in Bourbon and Revolutionary Río de la Plata
From the late eighteenth century through most of the nineteenth, Buenos Aires and Montevideo were hosts to a joint theatrical circuit characterized by the regular comings and goings of impresarios, artisans, musicians, and actors between the two cities. The military conflicts that shaped this period actually encouraged these connections, as they stimulated both exile and repatriation between one locale and the other. Africans, and particularly th…
Shipmate Networks and Black Identities in the Marriage Files of Montevideo, 1768-1803
The experience of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic crossing redefined the meanings of the nomenclature emerging from the slave trade. Under violent conditions, captives developed networks with shipmates on board slave vessels. These ties survived for decades if shipmates stayed together in the same region, as they did in Montevideo. Shipmate ties represented a living connection for Africans not only with their experience in the Atlantic crossing…
The ‘African Colonists’ of Montevideo: New Light on the Illegal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro and the Río de la Plata (1830–42)
New archival evidence from Montevideo reveals a twofold operation that brought enslaved Africans to Rio de Janeiro in the era of the illegal slave trade. This pattern emerged after the negotiation of the only – and largely unsuccessful – Anglo-Brazilian treaty against this traffic (1826) and the independence of Uruguay from Brazil (1825), which led to the foundation of the Uruguayan state in 1830. This operation also disguised the shipment of Afr…
Apuntes sobre el tráfico ilegal de esclavos hacia Brazil y Uruguay: Los "colonos" africanos de Montevideo (1832-1842)
El caso de los "colonos" africanos de Montevideo ilustra la renovaciónde las redes de tráfico de esclavos entre los portugueses y españolesdel Atlántico sur. Estas redes, que habían canalizado la llegada legal eilegal esclavos al Río de la Plata colonial, continuaron vigentes haciala década de 1830 y facilitaron el arribo de esclavos a Rio de Janeirojusto cuando la política anti-esclavista británica y el gobierno brasileñoestaban tratando de cort…
The Slave Trade to the Río de la Plata, 1777–1812: Trans-Imperial Networks and Atlantic Warfare
Atlantic European empires faced reform and centralization in the second half of the eighteenth century at a time when Spanish American dominions were challenged by British and Portuguese interests
Trans-imperial History in the Making of the Slave Trade to Venezuela, 1526-1811
The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of knowledge about the transatlantic slave trade, both through research on specific sections of this traffic and through the consolidation of datasets into a single online resource: Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (hereafter Voyages Database ). This collective project has elucidated in great detail the slave trading routes across the Atlantic and the broad African orig…
Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Crowd-Sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 1808–1862
Between 1808 and 1862, officers primarily from the British navy liberated approximately 175,000 enslaved Africans from transatlantic slavers. Information on more than half of this group has survived in bound ledger books. Based on the assessment of extant data for more than 92,000 Liberated Africans whose information was copied in at times duplicate and triplicate form in both London- and Freetown-based registers, this essay explores the pitfalls…
Shipmate Networks and Black Identities in the Marriage Files of Montevideo, 1768-1803
The experience of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic crossing redefined the meanings of the nomenclature emerging from the slave trade. Under violent conditions, captives developed networks with shipmates on board slave vessels. These ties survived for decades if shipmates stayed together in the same region, as they did in Montevideo. Shipmate ties represented a living connection for Africans not only with their experience in the Atlantic crossing…
From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America
Across imperial boundaries: Black social networks across the Iberian South Atlantic, 1760–1810
Rethinking the African Diaspora in the Americas urges scholars to look beyond where Africans came from and where they first disembarked in order to integrate the transimperial dimension. Social networks connecting black communities throughout the Americas constituted an additional feature of the black experience that shaped the political, social, economic, and cultural features of African diasporic communities and the larger societies in which th…
Black Cultural Production in the Nineteenth Century
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016
Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed inclu…
Patterns in the intercolonial slave trade across the Americas before the nineteenth century
The slave trade within the Americas, after the initial disembarkation of African captives in the New World, has received scant attention from historians, especially before the abolition of the transatlantic traffic. This article examines such intra-American trafficking as an introduction to the digital project Final Passages: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database, which aims to document evidence of slave voyages throughout the New World. This a…
From Colonial Performers to Actors of ‘American Liberty’: Black Artists in Bourbon and Revolutionary Río de la Plata
From the late eighteenth century through most of the nineteenth, Buenos Aires and Montevideo were hosts to a joint theatrical circuit characterized by the regular comings and goings of impresarios, artisans, musicians, and actors between the two cities. The military conflicts that shaped this period actually encouraged these connections, as they stimulated both exile and repatriation between one locale and the other. Africans, and particularly th…
The U.S. slave ship Ascension in the Río de la Plata: Slave routes and circuits of silver in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic and beyond
From 1777 to 1812, slave ships carried nearly 70,000 captives to the Rio de la Plata; however, the main slave routes leading to Buenos Aires and Montevideo did not depart from Africa. The traffic d
El tabaco y la esclavitud en la rearticulación imperial ibérica (s. XV-XX)
This edited volume examines how tobacco commercialization and taxation contributed to support the Iberian Atlantic monarchies, particularly focusing on how the early modern Spanish and Portuguese crowns and bureaucracies benefited from the tobacco monopoly. While the core chapters examine the estanco (royal tobacco monopoly) and the impact of this institution in the financial history of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, other contributions incl…
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
Randy M. Browne offers the most comprehensive account of the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants in Berbice, part of present-day Guyana, after this colony transitioned from Dutch to British rule. In this relatively little-studied society, slavery rose exponentially before the 1807 British prohibition of the transatlantic slave trade. Thereafter, Berbice experienced policies of “amelioration” of slavery typical of the British Caribbea…
The Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations: Commerce, Society, and Politics
Años de tráfico de esclavos hacia el Río de la Plata De la fundación de Buenos Aires a los «colonos» africanos de Montevideo, 1585-1835
Es común leer que la esclavitud no fue tan central para la sociedad rioplatense como lo fue en Estados Unidos, Cuba, y Brasil, o que el número de africanos esclavizados que llegaron al Río de la Plata no fue tan significativo como lo fue para las sociedades de esos países. En pos de dosificar estas generalizaciones, y con el objetivo de llegar tanto a investigadores de esta temática como a especialistas en otras áreas de la historia rioplatense, …
African Experiences in the Slave Routes to the Rio de la Plata During the Viceregal Era
Thinking About Blackness in the Pacific
Anthony Jerry discusses the history and challenges for recognitions of Black Mexico and the broader Pacific region of Latin America. Jerry describes his research on a Black Mexican community of Costa Chica and its complex racial identity development. Responding to Jerry's presentation, Alex Borucki describes the potential value of conducting comparative research that connects the movements of, as well as the locations where, Black communities dev…
La Confederación Argentina y sus subalternos: Integración estatal, política y derechos en el Buenos Aires posindependiente (1820-1860)
This book connects subaltern studies, Indigenous history, the history of the African diaspora, and gender studies by comprehensively examining the relationship of the government of the province of Buenos Aires led by Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829–52) with various subaltern groups. Ricardo Salvatore asserts that Rosas retained power and consistent popular support by controlling the territory through war, disseminating propaganda (via print culture an…
Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay
In this foundational work of the burgeoning scholarship on colonial Paraguay, Shawn Austin focuses on the Guaraní outside the Jesuit missions, those living in reducciones in Asunción and in areas between the missions. He is the first historian to systematically use judicial files, which show female litigants as well as Africans and their descendants, to examine how the Guaraní interacted with the Spanish and Africans in sixteenth- and seventeenth…
Tráfico estadounidense de esclavos al Río de la Plata y los circuitos de la plata más allá del Atlántico, 1798-1809
Si bien la trata de esclavos llevados por buques de Estados Unidos hacia el Río de la Plata duró solo doce años, entre 1798 y 1809, los comerciantes estadounidenses enviaron más cautivos directamente desde África a Buenos Aires y Montevideo (en lugar de hacerlo de manera indirecta a través de Brasil) que cualquier otro grupo nacional de mercaderes entre 1777 y 1812. Este artículo examina las conexiones de la trata de esclavos con la circulación d…
Transimperial Networks of Slave Trading, Piracy, and Empire Building in the Iberian Atlantic
This essay reviews the following works:The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil. Edited by Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 230. 24.10 paper. ISBN: 9781558765931
Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700 , by Alejandro García-Montón
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (21 works) · History (21 works) · Art (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · History (13 works) · Humanities (11 works) · Ethnology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Colonialism (8 works)