1st Edition

Cape of Torments Slavery and Resistance in South Africa

By Robert Ross Copyright 1983
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Beginning and the Setting  3. The Structure of Domination  4. The Slaves and the Khoisan  5. Hanglip  6. The Slaves and the Sailors  7. The Slaves and the Africans  8. The Impossibility of Rebellion  9. Conclusion

Biography

Robert Ross