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Dr Philip's empire - One man's struggle for justice in nineteenth-century South Africa (Paperback)
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Dr Philip's empire - One man's struggle for justice in nineteenth-century South Africa (Paperback)
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Dr John Philip towered over nineteenth-century South African
history, championing the rights of indigenous people against the
growing power of white supremacy, but today he is largely forgotten
or misremembered. From the time he arrived in South Africa as
superintendent of the London Missionary Society in 1819, Philip
played a major role in the idealist and humanitarian campaigns of
the day, fighting for the emancipation of slaves, protecting the
Khoi against injustice, and opposing the dispossession of the Xhosa
in the Eastern Cape. A fascinating picture of South Africa and the
British Empire during a time of great change, Dr Philip’s Empire
documents Philip’s encounters with Dutch colonists, English
settlers and indigenous South Africans, his never-ending battles
with fellow missionaries and colonial authorities, and his lobbying
among the powerful for indigenous people’s civil rights. A
controversial and influential figure, Philip was considered an
interfering radical subversive by believers in white superiority,
but he has been labelled a condescending, hypocritical ‘white
liberal’ in a more modern age. This book seeks to revive him from
these judgements and to recover the real man and his noble but
doomed struggles for justice in the context of his times.
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