The dead will arise : Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa Cattle-Killing movement of 1856-7

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Title:

The dead will arise : Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa Cattle-Killing movement of 1856-7

Author:

Peires, J. B. (Jeffrey B.)

ISBN:

9781868421589

Personal Author:

Peires, J. B. (Jeffrey B.)

Publication Information:

Johannesburg : Jonathan Ball, 2003.

Physical Description:

463 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Personal Subject:

Nongqawuse, 1841-1898-Prophecies.

Subject Term:

Xhosa (African people) -- Religion.

Xhosa (African people) -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- History -- Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857.

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Summary

The story of Nongqawuse - the young girl whose fantastic promise of the resurrection lured almost an entire people to death by starvation - is one of the most misunderstood of central events in South African history.

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