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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.

Ranching --- Cattle herding --- Africans --- Blacks --- Cattle herders --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Social networks --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Cowherds --- Herders --- Ethnology --- Cattle --- Herding --- Cattle ranching --- Agriculture --- Animal culture --- Beef cattle --- Range management --- History. --- History --- Handling --- America --- Africa --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Social life and customs. --- Race relations --- Civilization --- African influences. --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Black people --- 1500-1900. --- Africains --- Africans. --- Amerika. --- Black people. --- Boskapsskötsel --- Bovins --- Cattle herders. --- Cattle herding. --- Frontier and pioneer life. --- Lantbruk --- Manners and customs. --- Race relations. --- Ranching. --- Réseaux sociaux --- Social networks. --- Histoire --- Historia. --- Conduite du troupeau --- America. --- Amérique --- Civilisation --- Influence africaine. --- Mœurs et coutumes. --- Relations raciales --- Histoire.