Children Of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838

The Dutch East India Company's introduction of the first slave into the region known as the Cape of Good Hope in 1653 established an institution whose legal status ended in 1838 but whose social and political reverberations are still felt today. Children of Bondage is the story of the social, cultural, and biological progeny of that slave society. Robert Shell examines the complex and highly stratified hierarchies that evolved in South Africa, and outlines how its multiracial system of slavery was distinct from the biracial system that arose in the New World.

Softcover. English. Wits University Press. 1994. ISBN: 9781868142750. 501 p. Good. Book No: 2504207