2-7-18
people in some regions of Africans had great skill
as agro-pastoralists
key west African agro-pastoralist approach--animals
tethered among small plots
guinea
fowl: good guard animals
hair sheep
Bermuda
grass
African grasses were essential, both as more nutritious tropical
grasses and as easy to transport (very tall)
raising animals in European colonies:
- animals were released on remote
islands that lacked large carnivores with the idea that
they would live independently and multiply and be available to
people who might be shipwrecked on the island in the future
- native grasses did not make good pasture and
were replaced by European and African grasses
- native Americans relied primarily on deer,
which (like goats) eat brush as much as grass
- meat animals became an
important export even in New England
- how do you transport meat in
the absence of refrigeration
- tethered animals in slave plots
in coastal areas
- in South Carolina many inland
areas were first settled for ranching
- first cowboys were slaves