Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834

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dc.contributor.advisorWorden, Nigelen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBank, Andrewen_ZA
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dc.date.available2016-09-01T07:11:47Z
dc.date.issued1991en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn an influential article on the evolution of Afro-American society on the British mainland of North America, written in 1980, Ira Berlin charged slave historians with having ''produced an essentially static vision of Afro-American life. From Stanley Elkins' Sambo to John W.Blassingame's Nat-Sambo-Jack typology, scholars of all persuasions have held time constant and ignored the influence of place". Contrary to the monolithic presentations of the slave experience in the existing literature, Berlin maintains that at least three regionally distinct North American slave systems emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: a Northern nonplantation system and two Southern plantation systems (centred respectively on the Carolina/Georgia lowcountry and the Chesapeake). Regional variations in economic and demographic patterns (i.e. the demands of particular staples, the various configurations of whites and blacks, and variations in African-creole ratios) are shown to have underpinned the evolution of distinctive socio-cultural patterns in these three areas. Furthermore, Berlin demonstrates how temporal changes (specifically with regard to the differential impact of the slave trade in the mid-eighteenth century) superimposed themselves upon existing regional variations in shaping the North American slave experience - or, more accurately, experiences. Thus: "no matter how complete recent studies of black life appear, they are limited to the extent that they provide a static and singular vision of a dynamic and complex society".en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBank, A. (1991). <i>Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21623en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBank, Andrew. <i>"Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21623en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBank, A. 1991. Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Bank, Andrew AB - In an influential article on the evolution of Afro-American society on the British mainland of North America, written in 1980, Ira Berlin charged slave historians with having ''produced an essentially static vision of Afro-American life. From Stanley Elkins' Sambo to John W.Blassingame's Nat-Sambo-Jack typology, scholars of all persuasions have held time constant and ignored the influence of place". Contrary to the monolithic presentations of the slave experience in the existing literature, Berlin maintains that at least three regionally distinct North American slave systems emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: a Northern nonplantation system and two Southern plantation systems (centred respectively on the Carolina/Georgia lowcountry and the Chesapeake). Regional variations in economic and demographic patterns (i.e. the demands of particular staples, the various configurations of whites and blacks, and variations in African-creole ratios) are shown to have underpinned the evolution of distinctive socio-cultural patterns in these three areas. Furthermore, Berlin demonstrates how temporal changes (specifically with regard to the differential impact of the slave trade in the mid-eighteenth century) superimposed themselves upon existing regional variations in shaping the North American slave experience - or, more accurately, experiences. Thus: "no matter how complete recent studies of black life appear, they are limited to the extent that they provide a static and singular vision of a dynamic and complex society". DA - 1991 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1991 T1 - Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834 TI - Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21623 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBank A. Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1991 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21623en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHistorical Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleSlavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834en_ZA
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