Black Ranching Frontiers - Andrew Sluyter

Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900 by Andrew Sluyter is a groundbreaking book in which the author demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. 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.