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Slave emancipation and racial attitudes in nineteenth-century South Africa /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139233989 113923398X 1139230999 9781139230995 1107231647 9781107231641 1139234668 9781139234665 1280485779 9781280485770 1139233203 9781139233200 9786613580757 6613580759 1139229532 9781139229531 1139135147 9781139135146 1139232436 9781139232432 |