In this book, based on published sources, both primary and secondary, the available information on Cape slavery during the eighteenth century is placed in the wider context of Dutch colonial society d
In this reference for non-specialists and non-South African readers, Schoeman (Research Fellow, Dept of History, University of the Free State, South Africa) presents biographies of 12 individuals, thr
Eminent South African novelist and historian Schoeman wrote most of the 17 essays here for the Quarterly Bulletin of what is now the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, with the intention of
Most of the literature on slavery during the first 60 years in the colony that is now South Africa, is Dutch or Afrikaans, says Schoeman, and his purpose with this volume is to translate that material
