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Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope
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2022
Summary
Microhistory unlocked new avenues of historical investigation and methodologies and helped uncover the past of individuals, an event, or a small community. Reclamation of “lost histories” of individuals and colonized communities of colonial South Africa falls within this category. This study provides historical narratives of indigenous Khoikhoi of modest status absorbed into Cape colonial society as farm servants during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Based on archival and other sources, the author illuminates the “everyday life” and “lived experience” of Khoikhoi characters in a unique way. The opening chapter recounts the love-loathe drama between a Khoikhoi woman, Griet, and Hendrik Eksteen, whose murder she later orchestrated with the aid of slaves and Khoikhoi servants. The malcontent Andries De Necker, arrested for the murder of his Khoikhoi servant, attracted much legal attention and resulted in a protracted trial. The book next features the Khoikhoi millenarian prophet-turned-Christian convert Jan Paerl, who persuaded believers to reassert the land of their birth and liberate themselves from Dutch colonial rule by October 25, 1788. The last two chapters examine the lives of four Khoikhoi converts immersed into the Moravian missionary world and how they were exhibited by missionaries and sketched by the colonial artist, George F. Angas.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0058-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0059-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
174
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
CHAPTER ONE Love, Lust, and Loathing No access Pages 17 - 44
CHAPTER TWO Master, Malcontent, and Murderer No access Pages 45 - 76
CHAPTER THREE Jan Paerl c.1788–1851 No access Pages 77 - 100
CHAPTER FOUR “Soil Once His Own”: The Colonial and Christian World of Lebrecht Hans Ari No access Pages 101 - 118
CHAPTER FIVE “Sketching the Khoikhoi” No access Pages 119 - 138
