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

Title: Breaking the chains : slavery and its legacy in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony / edited by Nigel Worden & Clifton Crais.
Publication: Johannesburg, South Africa : Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.

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Description

xiv, 346 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

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Contents

Map 1 - The Cape Colony in 1786 -- Map 2 - The Cape Colony in 1830 -- Map 3 - Nineteenth-Century Cape Town -- Introduction / Nigel Worden and Clifton Crais -- 1. 'The Good Opinion of Others': Law, Slavery & Community in the Cape Colony, c. 1760-1830 / Wayne Dooling -- 2. Paternalism Under Siege: Slavery in Theory & Practice During the Era of Reform, c. 1825 Through Emancipation / John Mason -- 3. The Erosion of Urban Slavery at the Cape / Andrew Bank -- 4. 'Free, Yet Slaves': Prize Negroes at the Cape Revisited / Christopher Saunders -- 5. Between Slavery & Freedom: The Apprenticeship Period, 1834-8 / Nigel Worden -- 6. 'Rather Mental than Physical': Emancipations & the Cape Economy / Robert Ross -- 7. Emancipation, Commerce & the Role of John Fairbairn's Advertiser / Lalou Meltzer -- 8. Private & Public Worlds of Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, c. 1830-42 / Pamela Scully -- 9. The Enemy Within / Susan Newton-King --
10. Slavery & Emancipation in the Eastern Cape / Clifton Crais -- 11. Meanings of Freedom: Social Position & Identity Among Ex-Slaves & Their Descendants in Cape Town, 1875-1910 / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- 12. Links in the Chain: Community, Identity & Migration in Mamre, c. 1838-1938 / Kerry Ward.

ISBN

1868142671

LCCN

95163967

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Columbia University Libraries