This book examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of
Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak
of the South African War in 1899.For slaves and slave-owners alike,
incorporation into the British Empire at the beginning of the
nineteenth century brought fruits that were bitter-sweet. The
gentry had initially done well by accepting British rule but were
ultimately faced with the legislated ending of servile labour. To
slaves and Khoisan servants, British rule brought freedom, but a
freedom that remained limited. The gentry accomplished this feat
only with great difficulty. Increasingly, their dominance of the
countryside was threatened by English-speaking merchants and
moneylenders, a challenge that stimulated early Afrikaner
nationalism. The alliances that ensured nineteenth-century colonial
stability all but fell apart as the descendants of slaves and
Khoisan turned on their erstwhile masters during the South African
War of 1899-1902.
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