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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Building on the lively resurgence of pre-industrial Cape history, Pamela Scully illuminates but occasionally contests other slavery research. - -- Deborah Gaitskell * THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW * Liberating the Family? is path-breaking; it is elegantly argued and written, and should be read by everyone interested in the histories of southern Africa. - -- Patricia van der Spuy * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY * The author of this book is among recent innovative historians in combining the now characteristic analysis of cultural representations with a political economy analysis of the lives of her South African subjects. - Penelope Hetherington in -- Penelope Hetherington * AFSAAP * Fresh insight ... - Margaret Snyder in -- Margaret Snyder * CHOICE *
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Höhe: 227 mm
Breite: 142 mm
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978-0-85255-628-3 (9780852556283)
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Part 1 Introduction: gender, family and British slave emancipation. Part 2 Gender, family, and the ending of Cape slavery 1823-1838: familial boundaries and Cape slavery; gender, sexuality and amelioration; apprenticeship and the battle for the child. Part 3 Liberating the family? - 1838-1848: landscapes of emancipation; labouring families. Part 4 Sexuality, race and colonial identities 1838-1853: marriage and family in the post-emancipation era; rituals of rule - infanticide and the humanitarian sentiment; rape, race and the sexual politics of colonial identity; conclusion - family histories, slave emancipation and gender history.
