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Title: | African Economic Experiments in Colonial Natal, 1845-1880 |
Author: | Etherington, Norman A. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | African Economic History |
Volume: | 5 |
Period: | Spring |
Pages: | 1-15 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Natal South Africa |
Subjects: | history black entrepreneurs 1800-1899 colonialism History and Exploration Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3601437 |
Abstract: | Examination of the economic rise and fall of black peasant communities in Natal Colony between 1845 and 1880, communities developed by the efforts of Christian missionaries. By the time of the Zulu War, African Christian communities had not only established a flourishing peasant economy but had also embarked upon entrepreneurial capitalist ventures on a significant scale, such as the production and refinement of sugar and cotton, transport, and trade. The well-known curbs placed by white legislators upon African economic activity after the Zulu war were not so much designed to safeguard whites against potential black competition but aimed rather to undo progress which had already been made. Notes, French abstract. |