By Daryl J Glaser
Delivering a wide-ranging and significant advent to modern South Africa, this booklet makes use of an interdisciplinary lens to introduce the coed to the most debates, old context, and matters that experience characterised the learn of South Africa over the past 3 decades.
Key themes contain: the function of colonialism, capitalism and modernity within the formation of the racial order; adjustments within the South African kingdom; questions of sophistication, race and ehtnicity; black resistance; and the transition to democracy.
A variety of underlying debates are seriously evaluated. For exmple, the contribution of materialist and class-analytic methods, the applying of post-structuralism and theories of modernity, and th
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Slaves were, it remains true, distinguishable from whites by the fact of their widespread heathenism as well as by race. Colonialists were convinced that Christian ancestry conferred a fuller entitlement to baptism than heathen ancestry (Gerstner 1997). Masters moreover feared that Christianization might result in slave freedom, especially after the Council of Indies in Batavia decreed in 1770 that Christianized slaves could not be sold or alienated. The result was a very low level of master-initiated Christianization, especially of private slaves, and even white tolerance of slave Islamization.
Slavery's contribution to formalized racism is open to query not least because in some other countries, notably Brazil, effectively racial slave systems yielded to societies characterized by a relatively greater degree of racial assimilation, or at least to a graded or pluralistic rather than bipolar racial order (Marx 1998). The extent to which Cape importation-based slavery contributed to the entrenchment of racial assumptions is disputed. Frederickson argued that intermarriage between European males and freed slave women was relatively common and socially acceptable in white society and that, moreover, the offspring of mixed unions encountered (at least until the later eighteenth century) less prejudice and fewer obstacles to upward mobility than their counterparts in America.
COLONIALISM AND THE RACIAL ORDER 9 far more central role for slavery in South African history than has hitherto been assumed. Nevertheless there is a case for considering separately the slave system in the southwestern Cape and Cape Town, partly because it was distinctive in being based on long-distance imported slaves rather than the labour of adjacent or nearby indigenes, and partly because it was formalized and open. Moreover import slavery developed partly as a result of an initial Dutch reluctance to indenture or enslave adjacent indigenes, a reluctance reinforced by Khoisan pastoralists' lack of experience with regular sedentary labour (Frederickson 1981:54-6).