Traditionally, the Eastern Cape frontier of South Africa has been regarded as the preeminent contact zone between colonists and the Khoi—“Hottentots”—and San—“Bushmen.”
Nigel Penn is a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth-Century Cape Characters.
“With this book Nigel Penn has made a significant contribution to
South African historiography and filled a glaring lacuna in Cape
colonial history.... It must be on the shelf of any South African
historian and of libraries with an Africana collection.”
*International Journal of African Historical Studies*
“This unsentimental, clearly written and very wide-ranging study is
indispensable reading for anyone seeking not only a clearer
understanding of eighteenth-century South Africa, but also a better
sense of that period’s bitter legacy.”
*Canadian Journal of African Studies*
“A very solid, even fundamental, monograph, based on exceptional
source materials and throwing new light on a period and subject in
the history of South Africa that are almost unknown. Thanks to this
book one can view the nuances of the history of the region in the
18th and the first half of the 19th centuries from a new
perspective.”
*Werkwinkel: Journal of Low Countries and South African
Studies*
“Penn has performed exhaustive archival research in English, Dutch
and early Afrikaans and subsequently produced a narrative of
considerable intricacy.”
*Journal of Social History*
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