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Subject(s)

• Ranching—America—History [Browse]
• Cattle herding—America—History [Browse]
• Africans—America—History [Browse]
• Black people—America—History [Browse]
• Cattle herders—America—History [Browse]
• Frontier and pioneer life—America [Browse]
• Social networks—America—History [Browse]
• America—Social life and customs [Browse]
• America—Race relations—History [Browse]
• America—Civilization—African influences [Browse]

Series

• Yale agrarian studies. [More in this series]
• Yale agrarian studies series [More in this series]

Summary note

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world.Sluyter shows that Africans' ideas and creativity helped to establish a production system so fundamental to the environmental and social relations of the American colonies that the consequences persist to the present. He examines various methods of cattle production, compares these methods to those used in Europe and the Americas, and traces the networks of actors that linked that Atlantic world. The use of archival documents, material culture items, and ecological relationships between landscape elements make this book a methodologically and substantively original contribution to Atlantic, African-American, and agricultural history.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Atlantic Networks and Local Frontiers
• New Spain
• Louisiana
• Barbuda
• The Pampas
• The Tasajo Trail
• Legacy and Promise.

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ISBN

• 9781283742344
• 1283742349
• 9780300183238
• 0300183232

OCLC

• 820009875
• 923601470

Doi

• 10.12987/9780300183238

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