Slavery In South Africa: Captive Labor On The Dutch Frontier

by Elizabeth Eldredge, Fred Morton

Overview

South African slavery differs from slavery practiced in other frontier zones of European settlement in that the settlers enslaved indigenes as a supplement to and eventually as a replacement for imported slave labor. On the expanding frontier, Dutch-speaking farmers increasingly met their labor needs by conducting slave raids, arming African slave

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000311556
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/28/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	313
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Elizabeth A Eldredge Michigan State University

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Demonstrates that slavery was widespread in South Africa until the late 19th century. Contributors document slave raids on African communities by African slave raiders armed by the Boers, and discuss captive labor in the Western Transvaal, the indenture system and slavery in Zoutpansberg, and the effect of slavery on relations between Boer and African societies. Includes a glossary and b&w maps. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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