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Author Sluyter, Andrew, 1958- author.

Title Black ranching frontiers : African cattle herders of the Atlantic world, 1500-1900 / Andrew Sluyter
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies.
Contents Atlantic Networks and Local Frontiers -- New Spain -- Louisiana -- Barbuda -- The Pampas -- The Tasajo Trail -- Legacy and Promise
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-295) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject 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
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
Africans
Black people
Cattle herders
Cattle herding
Civilization -- African influences
Frontier and pioneer life
Manners and customs
Race relations
Ranching
Social networks
Grenzgebiet
Schwarze
Weidewirtschaft
Nutztierzucht
SUBJECT America -- Social life and customs
America -- Race relations -- History
America -- Civilization -- African influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96008121
Subject America
Amerika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012012359
ISBN 9780300183238
0300183232