Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier

ISBN-13: 9780367287351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 338 str.

Elizabeth Eldredge; Fred Morton

Opis

This volume examines South African Slavery and how it differs from slavery practiced in other frontier zones of European settlement, for example the practice of Dutch farmers conducting slave raids to meet their labour needs and the portrayal of slavery as a form of "apprenticeship".

Spis treści

Terms and Designations -- Slavery and South African Historiography -- The Tower of Babel: The Slave Trade and Creolization at the Cape, 1652–1834 -- Drosters of the Bokkeveld and the Roggeveld, 1770-18001 -- Fortunate Slaves and Artful Masters: Labor Relations in the Rural Cape Colony During the Era of Emancipation, ca. 1825 to 18381 -- Slave Raiding Across the Cape Frontier -- Delagoa Bay and the Hinterland in the Early Nineteenth Century: Politics, Trade, Slaves, and Slave Raiding -- Captive Labor in the Western Transvaal After the Sand River Convention1 -- "Black Ivory": The Indenture System and Slavery in Zoutpansberg, 1848–18691 -- Servitude, Slave Trading, and Slavery in the Kalahari -- Slavery in South Africa

O autorze

Elizabeth A Eldredge Michigan State University