Author: Richard Lyness Watson Publisher: ISBN: 9781107689381 Category : Race discrimination Languages : en Pages : 318
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"This book examines the social transformation wrought by the abolition of slavery in 1834 in South Africa's Cape Colony. It pays particular attention to the effects of socioeconomic and cultural changes in the way both freed slaves and dominant whites adjusted to the new world. It compares South Africa's relatively peaceful transition from a slave to a non-slave society to the bloody experience of the US South after abolition, analyzing rape hysteria in both places as well as the significance of changing concepts of honor in the Cape. Finally, the book examines the early development of South Africa's particular brand of racism, arguing that abolition, not slavery itself, was a causative factor; although racist attitudes were largely absent while slavery persisted, they grew incrementally but steadily after abolition, driven primarily by whites' need for secure, exploitable labor"--
Author: R. L. Watson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107022002 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 335
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Examines the significance of the abolition of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony in 1834 and the subsequent development of race relations.
Author: Nigel Worden Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: Category : Black people Languages : en Pages : 368
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This text explores slavery in South Africa in the 19th century and offers glimpses into some of the social iniquities of the 20th century. Contributors focus attention on the historical transformation of the Cape Colony during the 19th century.
Author: Wayne Dooling Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0896802639 Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 266
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Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South African War in 1899. For slaves and slave owners alike, incorporation into the British Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century brought fruits that were bittersweet. The gentry had initially done well by accepting British rule, but were ultimately faced with the legislated ending of servile labor. To slaves and Khoisan servants, British rule brought freedom, but a freedom that remained limited. The gentry accomplished this feat only with great difficulty. Increasingly, their dominance of the countryside was threatened by English-speaking merchants and money-lenders, a challenge that stimulated early Afrikaner nationalism. The alliances that ensured nineteenth-century colonial stability all but fell apart as the descendants of slaves and Khoisan turned on their erstwhile masters during the South African War of 1899-1902.
Author: Pamela Scully Publisher: James Currey ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 248
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The author of this study argues that the ending of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony initiated an era of exceptional struggle about cultural categories and sensibilities. Far more than simply abolishing bonded labour, British slave emancipation reconfigured the relations between men and women, and individual and society. It was precisely because emancipation implied that slaves would be free to live as they pleased that claims regarding the legitimacy of specific family, labour, gender and sexual relations became central to the struggle by various colonial groups to shape post-emancipation society. The author postulates that for government officials the linkage between political economy to questions of cultural reproduction became a crucial component of the construction of colonial society.
Author: Douglas Hamilton Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317321979 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 240
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This is the first book to explore national representations of slavery in an international comparative perspective. Contributions span a wide geographical range, covering Europe, North America, West and South Africa, the Indian Ocean and Asia.
Author: Trevor R. Getz Publisher: James Currey ISBN: Category : Enslaved persons Languages : en Pages : 288
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Local elites resisted, diverted and appropriated metropolitan attempts to end or restrict access to and control of slaves. At the same time slaves were able to liberate themselves and take part in mass emancipations. The situation was transformed by the introduction of new economic opportunities and politicisation and social change among slaves themselves.
Author: B. Everill Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137291818 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America.
Author: Jan-Georg Deutsch Publisher: James Currey Publishers ISBN: 0852559860 Category : Enslaved persons Languages : en Pages : 578
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This study examines the complex history of slavery in East Africa, focusing on the area that came under German colonial rule. In contrast to the policy pursued at the time by other colonial powers in Africa, the German authorities did not legally abolish slavery in their colonial territories. However, despite government efforts to keep the institution of slavery alive, it significantly declined in Tanganyika in the period concerned. This book highlights the crucial role played by the slaves in the process of emancipation. The book is divided into three parts. The first explores the rise of slavery in Tanganyika in the second half of the nineteenth century when the region became more fully integrated into the world economy. This is followed by an analysis of German colonial policy. The authorities believed that abolition should be avoided at all costs since it would undermine the power and prosperity of the local slave owning elites whose effective collaboration was thought to be indispensable to the functioning of colonial rule. The final part recounts how slaves by their own initiative brought the 'evil institution' to an end. This comprised both highly disruptive moments of wholesale flight and, depending on the possibility of escape and individual circumstances, more subtle changes in servile relationships. North America: Ohio U PressBR>
Author: Richard Lyness Watson
Author: R. L. Watson
Author: Nigel Worden
Author: Wayne Dooling
Author: Pamela Scully
Author: Douglas Hamilton
Author: Trevor R. Getz
Author: Keri Leigh Merritt
Author: B. Everill
Author: Jan-Georg Deutsch