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Black ranching frontiers : African cattle herders of the Atlantic world, 1500-1900 / Andrew Sluyter.

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In this volume, Andrew Sluyter demonstrates 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, labour, property and commerce in the Atlantic world.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sluyter, Andrew, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2012]
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Subjects:
Ranching > America > History.
Cattle herding > America > History.
Africans > America > History.
Black people > America > History.
Cattle herders > America > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > America.
Social networks > America > History.
America > Social life and customs.
America > Race relations > History.
America > Civilization > African influences.
Africans.
Blacks.
Cattle herders.
Cattle herding.
Civilization > African influences.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Manners and customs.
Race relations.
Ranching.
Social networks.
America.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Atlantic Networks and Local Frontiers
  • New Spain
  • Louisiana
  • Barbuda
  • The Pampas
  • The Tasajo Trail
  • Legacy and Promise.

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