In the Shadow of Slavery by Judith A. Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff

Author:Judith A. Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff [Carney, Judith A. & Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: University of California Press, Ltd.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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African Animals and Grasses in the New World Tropics

The number of sheep in the Americas eventually became immense, but they were slower to adapt than most of the other kinds of European livestock. They did not do well in the Caribbean islands or in hot, wet lowlands…. The areas of Brazil settled by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century were much too tropical for sheep, except in the captaincies of the central-south—Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

ALFRED W. CROSBY

Columbian Exchange

It was not so much the Negro’s brawn as his skill that gave value to his services.

WESLEY FRANK CRAVEN

“An Introduction to the History of Bermuda”

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