Article: Social Death and Reconstruction: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa

John Edwin Mason. Social Death and Reconstruction: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2003. xiii +334 pp. Map. Tables. Index. $59.50. Cloth.

Here we have yet another comparison of slavery in the South African Cape with slavery in antebellum America. What Mason adds is his unmatched familiarity with the massive corpus of the records of British slave protectors during the periods of amelioration (1826-34) and apprenticeship (1834-38) that led to emancipation. The experience of slaves is narrated with liberal quotations from the protectors' entries, reflecting as closely as possible the slaves' own words. Written deliberately in a ...

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