Social Death and Resurrection: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa

by John Edwin Mason

Book Overview

What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make?

The questions themselves are simply put, but John Edwin Mason has found complex answers after delving deeply into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, the work that slaves performed, the families they created, and the religions they practiced. Grounding his analysis within the context of South Africa's incorporation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813921791
• ISBN13: 9780813921792
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher