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This book examines the social transformation wrought by the
abolition of slavery in 1834 in South Africa's Cape Colony. It pays
particular attention to the effects of socioeconomic and cultural
changes in the way both freed slaves and dominant whites adjusted
to the new world. It compares South Africa's relatively peaceful
transition from a slave to a non-slave society to the bloody
experience of the US South after abolition, analyzing rape hysteria
in both places as well as the significance of changing concepts of
honor in the Cape. Finally, the book examines the early development
of South Africa's particular brand of racism, arguing that
abolition, not slavery itself, was a causative factor; although
racist attitudes were largely absent while slavery persisted, they
grew incrementally but steadily after abolition, driven primarily
by whites' need for secure, exploitable labor.
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