Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 316 g
Reihe: Social History of Africa
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 316 g
Reihe: Social History of Africa
ISBN: 978-0-85255-628-3
Verlag: James Currey
Examines the complex impact of the end of slavery in the Cape on other social relations.
The author of this study argues that the ending of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony initiated an era of exceptional struggle about cultural categories and sensibilities. Far more than simply abolishing bonded labour, Britishslave emancipation reconfigured the relations between men and women, and individual and society. It was precisely because emancipation implied that slaves would be free to live as they pleased that claims regarding the legitimacyof specific family, labour, gender and sexual relations became central to the struggle by various colonial groups to shape post-emancipation society. The author postulates that for government officials the linkage between political economy to questions of cultural reproduction became a crucial component of the construction of colonial society.
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The author of this study argues that the ending of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony initiated an era of exceptional struggle about cultural categories and sensibilities. Far more than simply abolishing bonded labour, Britishslave emancipation reconfigured the relations between men and women, and individual and society. It was precisely because emancipation implied that slaves would be free to live as they pleased that claims regarding the legitimacyof specific family, labour, gender and sexual relations became central to the struggle by various colonial groups to shape post-emancipation society. The author postulates that for government officials the linkage between political economy to questions of cultural reproduction became a crucial component of the construction of colonial society.
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