Article ID: CBB001422573

How Africans and Their Descendants Participated in Establishing Open-Range Cattle Ranching in the Americas (2015)

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Sluyter, Andrew (Author)


Environment and History
Volume: 21, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 77-101


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Article in a special issue: “Transoceanic Exchanges”
Language: English

Following the introduction of cattle into the Caribbean in 1493, open-range ranching proliferated in a series of frontiers across the grasslands of the Americas through the nineteenth century, establishing novel social and environmental relations with consequences that persist to the present. While historians have recognised that Africans and Afro-descendants were involved in the establishment of those ranching frontiers, the emphasis has been on their labour rather than creative participation. Now material culture and other primary sources that complement archival documents have begun to reveal a fuller understanding of their roles. Two case studies illustrate how such complementary types of evidence reveal that African and Afro-descended herders took active roles in the processes of innovation regarding use of the lasso from horseback in North America and water-lifting technology in South America. Such contributions were critical to the expansion of open-range cattle throughout the Americas and consequent environmental transformations.

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Authors & Contributors
Giuliano Pinto
Alberto Malvolti
Kananoja, Kalle
Anna Maria Pult
Lucia Papini
Earle, Rebecca
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Environmental history
Agriculture
Environment
Water
Water resource management
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
15th century
19th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Tuscany (Italy)
Europe
Africa
Americas
Atlantic world
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Universidade de Coimbra
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