ISBN:
113923398X
,
9781139233989
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 318 pages)
,
maps
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Watson, R.L. (Richard Lyness), 1945- Slave emancipation and racial attitudes in nineteenth-century South Africa
DDC:
306.3/6209687
Keywords:
Slavery History
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
History
;
Race discrimination History
;
HISTORY ; Africa ; General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
;
Race discrimination
;
Slavery
;
Slaves ; Emancipation
;
History
;
South Africa ; Cape of Good Hope
Abstract:
"This book examines the social transformation wrought by the abolition of slavery in 1834 in South Africa's Cape Colony. It pays particular attention to the effects of socioeconomic and cultural changes in the way both freed slaves and dominant whites adjusted to the new world. It compares South Africa's relatively peaceful transition from a slave to a non-slave society to the bloody experience of the US South after abolition, analyzing rape hysteria in both places as well as the significance of changing concepts of honor in the Cape. Finally, the book examines the early development of South Africa's particular brand of racism, arguing that abolition, not slavery itself, was a causative factor; although racist attitudes were largely absent while slavery persisted, they grew incrementally but steadily after abolition, driven primarily by whites' need for secure, exploitable labor"--
Abstract:
Part I. The Foundations of Racial Order: 1. The passing of the slave system; 2. Labor and the economy -- Part II. Cultural and Political Factors: 3. Missions; 4. Respectability; 5. The frontier; 6. The trek; 7. Plagues -- Part III. Rape, Race and Violence: 8. Violence; 9. Rape and other crimes; 10. Honor -- Part IV. A Racial Order: 11. Sediment at the bottom of the mind; 12. An aristocracy of skin -- Appendix: The newspapers.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Permalink
