Black cowboys
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black-cowboys-185-1203261
title:
Black cowboys
text:
Black cowboys in the American West accounted for up to an estimated 25% of cowboys "who went up the trail" from the 1860s to 1880s and substantial but unknown percentage in the rest of the ranching industry, estimated to be at least 5,000 workers according to recent research. Typically former slaves or born into the families of former slaves, many Black men had skills in cattle handling and headed West at the end of the Civil War. Though the industry generally treated Black men equally to White
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Racial demographic of cowboys in the United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cowboys
date created:
2017-08-28T22:12:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T19:37:51Z
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