Sam Sly's African Journal and the role of satire in colonial British identity at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1840-1850
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2010
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In 1843, William Sammons founded the peculiarly named Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843 -1851) in Cape Town. Claiming to be a ‘register of facts, fiction, news, literature, commerce and amusement’, the African Journal was a hybrid newspaper and literary and satirical periodical aimed at an Anglophone immigrant readership in the period between the abolition of slavery and the granting of representative government to the Cape Colony.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-171).
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Holdridge, C. 2010. Sam Sly's African Journal and the role of satire in colonial British identity at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1840-1850. University of Cape Town.