Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900

by Andrew Sluyter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300179928
• ISBN13: 9780300179927
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.9"