Breaking the chains : slavery and its legacy in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony

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Title:

Author:

Worden, Nigel, 1955-

ISBN:

9781868142675

Publication Information:

Johannesburg, South Africa : Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.

Physical Description:

xiv, 346 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Good opinion of others / Paternalism under siege / Erosion of urban slavery at the cape / Free, yet slaves / Between slavery & freedom / Rather mental than physical / Emancipation, commerce & role of the John Fairbairn's advertiser / Private & public worlds of emancipation in the rural western Cape, c.1830-42 / Enemy within / Slavery & emancipation in the eastern Cape / Meanings of freedom / Links in the chain

Subject Term:

Slavery -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century.

Slavery -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 19th century.

Blacks -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History.

Added Author:

Worden, Nigel, 1955-

Crais, Clifton C.

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Summary

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.