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Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope (Hardcover)
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Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope (Hardcover)
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Microhistory unlocked new avenues of historical investigation and
methodologies and helped uncover the past of individuals, an event,
or a small community. Reclamation of "lost histories" of
individuals and colonized communities of colonial South Africa
falls within this category. This study provides historical
narratives of indigenous Khoikhoi of modest status absorbed into
Cape colonial society as farm servants during the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Based on archival and other sources, the
author illuminates the "everyday life" and "lived experience" of
Khoikhoi characters in a unique way. The opening chapter recounts
the love-loathe drama between a Khoikhoi woman, Griet, and Hendrik
Eksteen, whose murder she later orchestrated with the aid of slaves
and Khoikhoi servants. The malcontent Andries De Necker, arrested
for the murder of his Khoikhoi servant, attracted much legal
attention and resulted in a protracted trial. The book next
features the Khoikhoi millenarian prophet-turned-Christian convert
Jan Paerl, who persuaded believers to reassert the land of their
birth and liberate themselves from Dutch colonial rule by October
25, 1788. The last two chapters examine the lives of four Khoikhoi
converts immersed into the Moravian missionary world and how they
were exhibited by missionaries and sketched by the colonial artist,
George F. Angas.
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