Wage Labour and Slavery on the Cape Frontier
(2018) In Work Around the Globe: Historical Comparisons and Connections p.265-294- Abstract
- The 1807 ban on the importation of slaves is said to have had severe consequences for farmers in South Africa’s Southwestern Cape, an areaof wheat and wine farming that used large numbers of slave labourers.The ban resulted in a rapid rise in slave prices, which signif icantly increased input costs. In contrast, the effect of the ban was apparently much more moderate in the eastern parts of the colony, where stock farmers used predominantly Khoesan labour. We use six tax censuses from the easternmost district in the Colony, Graaff-Reinet, to show thatthe ban on importing slaves did indeed have important consequences for farmers, even on the colony’s distant frontier. The ban affected not only the composition of labour but also its... (More)
- The 1807 ban on the importation of slaves is said to have had severe consequences for farmers in South Africa’s Southwestern Cape, an areaof wheat and wine farming that used large numbers of slave labourers.The ban resulted in a rapid rise in slave prices, which signif icantly increased input costs. In contrast, the effect of the ban was apparently much more moderate in the eastern parts of the colony, where stock farmers used predominantly Khoesan labour. We use six tax censuses from the easternmost district in the Colony, Graaff-Reinet, to show thatthe ban on importing slaves did indeed have important consequences for farmers, even on the colony’s distant frontier. The ban affected not only the composition of labour but also its productivity. (Less)
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- Green, Erik LU and Fourie, Johan
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-03-13
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations
- series title
- Work Around the Globe: Historical Comparisons and Connections
- editor
- Hofmeester, Karin and de Zwart, Pim
- pages
- 30 pages
- publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- ISBN
- 978-90-4853-502-6
- 978-94-6298-436-3
- DOI
- 10.5117/9789462984363
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 419f9f97-4a0b-460c-84cf-57d6b36a78e2
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