Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction: gender, family and British slave emancipation. Part 2 Gender, family, and the ending of Cape slavery 1823-1838: familial boundaries and Cape slavery gender, sexuality and amelioration apprenticeship and the battle for the child. Part 3 Liberating the family? - 1838-1848: landscapes of emancipation labouring families. Part 4 Sexuality, race and colonial identities 1838-1853: marriage and family in the post-emancipation era rituals of rule - infanticide and the humanitarian sentiment rape, race and the sexual politics of colonial identity conclusion - family histories, slave emancipation and gender history.

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