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| Title: | Adam Kok's Griquas: a study in the development of stratification in South Africa |
| Author: | Ross, Robert |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Issue: | 21 |
| Pages: | 194 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 0521211999 |
| Geographic terms: | The Cape South Africa Orange Free State |
| Subjects: | Griqua history 1800-1899 |
| About person: | Adam Kok (1811-1875) |
| Abstract: | This book describes the growth, the aspirations, the flourishing and the final collapse of the Griqua captaincies of Philippolis and Kokstad, during the evolution of nineteenth century South Africa. The Griquas were descendants of early Boer frontiersmen; of the remnants of Khoison tribes: of escaped cape slaves and of detached African tribesmen. They formed a community, gained control over a large area of the Southern Orange Free State, where they established a prosperous little state. As the frontier region advanced, they came under increasing pressure untill finally their country was annexed to the Cape Colony in 1879, and their political and social structure quickly collapsed. |