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| Title: | The Khoisan to c. 1770 |
| Author: | Elphick, R. |
| Book title: | The shaping of South African society, 1652-1820 |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Pages: | 3-40 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | The Cape South Africa |
| Subjects: | colonial conquest Khoikhoi |
| Abstract: | The Cape colonists dispossessed and subjugated the Khoikhoi with comparative ease. Primary in this success was not smallpox, the writer argues, but the broad array of demands which the colony made on the Khoikhoi, and their weakness in resisting them. The Khoisan: Khoikhoi and hunters - Frontiers of trade and agrarian settlement, c. 1590-1672 - Idem, 1672-1701 - The breakdown of Khoikhoi society, 1672-1701 - Advance of the trekboer frontier, c. 1700-c. 1770 - Khoisan and the trekboer frontier - Khoikhoi and slaves - Conclusion. Map, notes. |