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 book examines Cape society and slave organization;
the complex relations between slaves and the other groups of
population at the Cape - Khoisan, Xhosa, Sotho-Tswana, Dutch East
India Co servants and sailors - and the opportunities for escape;
major uprisings and rebellions. The major theme of the book is the
extent to which the Cape slaves were able to build a culture of
their own, and the legacy of slavery to their descendants in modern
South Africa.
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