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| Title: | Slavery in Dutch South Africa |
| Author: | Worden, Nigel |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Issue: | 44 |
| Pages: | 207 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 0521258758 |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Netherlands |
| Subjects: | colonization slavery |
| Abstract: | This book examines the nature of slavery in early colonial South Africa under the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795). It discusses with use of statistical and criminal records, how the slave economy developed in town and countryside, the dynamics of the slave market, the growth of land concentration, the harsh life on the farm, and the developing polarisation of rural race relations. It analyses the relation of fear and brutality in small farming communities and demonstrates that small-scale slavery produced conditions as severe as those experienced in the large-scale slave-holding systems of the Deep South. |