Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa

by Robert Ross

Cape of Torments, first published in 1983, is a detailed examination of slavery in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. It describes the reactions of the slaves to their conditions of slavery, concentrating on those aspects of their lives which their masters considered criminal, and above all on the large numbers of occasions when slaves ran away in an attempt to start a new life elsewhere. The book examines Cape society and slave organization;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032309512
• ISBN13: 9781032309514
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"