Liberating The Family: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa 23-1853 by Pamela Scully

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Liberating The Family: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa 23-1853 by Pamela ScullyISBN: 0852556284 James Currey (1998) Soft Cover, xiii+210 pages The author of this study argues that the ending of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony initiated an era of exceptional struggle about cultural categories and sensibilities. Far more than simply abolishing bonded labour, British slave emancipation reconfigured the relations between men and women, and individual and society. It was precisely because emancipation implied that slaves would

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