Recent reading: on brands and sumptuary codes
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APRIL 12, 2021
In other places/times, both Indians and colonists were required to use their own brands to identify animals, but who got away with violating the rules was unsurprisingly racialized. A few seventeenth-century planters branded cattle on the horn, but most colonists preferred to clip animals’ ears.
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