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Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa

Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa

Ross, Robert

Paperback

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Slavery

General World History

ISBN10: 103230961X
ISBN13: 9781032309613
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 15 2024
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Cape of Torments, first published in 1983, is a detailed examination of slavery in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. It describes the reactions of the slaves to their conditions of slavery, concentrating on those aspects of their lives which their masters considered criminal, and above all on the large numbers of occasions when slaves ran away in an attempt to start a new life elsewhere. The book examines Cape society and slave organization; the complex relations between slaves and the other groups of population at the Cape - Khoisan, Xhosa, Sotho-Tswana, Dutch East India Co servants and sailors - and the opportunities for escape; major uprisings and rebellions. The major theme of the book is the extent to which the Cape slaves were able to build a culture of their own, and the legacy of slavery to their descendants in modern South Africa.

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