Social Death and Resurrection: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa

Social Death and Resurrection: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa
ISBN-10
0813921791
ISBN-13
9780813921792
Category
History
Pages
334
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Author
John Edwin Mason

Description

What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? John Edwin Mason presents complex answers after delving into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, primarily during the period from1820 to 1850.

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