R. L. Watson

Slave Emancipation and Racial Attitudes in Nineteenth-Century South Africa (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139227995
• Artikelnr.: 38276746

Autorenporträt

Ryan Watson is passionate about encouraging believers in their faith as well as helping them build good theology from a whole of Scripture understanding of the Bible. He has both a Bachelor of Ministry and a Master of Arts in Theology after studying under the Australian College of Theology at Malyon College in Brisbane, Australia. He has experience in preaching, teaching and has served as a Youth Pastor. At the University of Queensland, he studied a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Ancient and Modern History and English, and completed a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education.As well as self-publishing his first book Why then the Law?, he has written a number of blog articles and published essays on academia.edu. Ryan lives in Brisbane, Australia with his wife and four boys, and works as a High-School English teacher.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. THE FOUNDATIONS oF a 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.