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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
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.
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