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Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa

Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa

Ross, Robert
Robert, Ross

Paperback

Series: African Studies, Book 21

Black American StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521102332
ISBN13: 9780521102339
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 12 2009
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines the ways in which racial and economic stratification were brought to coincide in pre-industrial South Africa by describing in detail the history of one group, the Griquas of Philippolis and Kokstad. These people, of very mixed origins, were central, both physically and symbolically, to the processes of South African history in the nineteenth century. They were able to gain control over a very large area of the southern Orange Free State, where they established what was, for a time, a prosperous little state. Very many Griquas became Christian, although this did not mean that they were dominated by the missionaries - rather the reverse. A substantial number were literate. Moreover, they made use of all possible means of developing their own wealth, first as ivory hunters and then as successful horse and sheep ranchers. In short, they fulfilled all the criteria for acceptance into the ruling class of white South Africa. except that they were not white.

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