Over the past few decades South African historiography has begun to
recover from its previous Eurocentric bias to reflect the realities
of a multiracial society. Most of the various non-white groups
which form part of the population of the country have begun to
receive closer attention, but two have still been largely neglected
- the Korana, who no longer exist as an identifiable group, and the
related Griquas, who still form a largely recognisable people with
a sense of their own identity. In an attempt to help recover
something of the Griqua past, the author has compiled a collection
of official and semi-official documents emanating from the
Philippolis Captaincy, which has been published by the Van Riebeeck
Society under the title Griqua Records - the Philippolis Captaincy,
1826–1861. In order to put to use the large amount related material
he has collected which could not be used in this work, as well as
the knowledge of the subject he has acquired in the course of his
research, he has now written what may be described as an
accompanying socio-cultural and historical survey of the Captaincy,
consisting mainly of precis of and quotations from contemporary
non-Griqua sources. The author here describes fully for the first
time the rise, development and collapse of the Philippolis
Captaincy, and gives a detailed account of its organisation and
administration and the lives of its inhabitants.
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