• The South African Letters of Thomas Pringle
    Edited and introduced by Randolph Vigne
    Volume:
    II-42 (2011)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) is remembered as ‘the father of English poetry’ in this country, as leader of the only Scottish settler party in 1820 and as a champion of the freedom of the press. He had an earlier career as founding editor of Blackwood’s Magazine in Edinburgh and a later one as man of letters in London and secretary of...
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  • Trials of Slavery. Selected Documents Concerning Slaves from the Criminal Records of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope, 1705-1794
    Edited by Nigel Worden and Gerald Groenewald
    Volume:
    II-36 (2005)
    Print Status:
    In Print and eBook available
    Trials of Slavery is a first in South African historiography, a collection of 87 verbatim records of trials involving slaves at the Cape during the 18th century. The cases are drawn from the exceptionally rich archives of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope under the rule of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and illuminate not...
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  • The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800; Vol. II
    Edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur.
    Volume:
    II-30 (1999)
    Print Status:
    Out of Print
    This second volume of the Cape diaries, dealing with 1800, further develop this rich and entertaining account of life at the Cape in the early years of British rule. Politically the Diaries lay bare the dynamics of the conflicts among senior office-holders, not only in the civil administration, but also in and between the army and navy. Lady Anne's independence...
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  • The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800; Vol. I
    Edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur.
    Volume:
    II-29 (1998)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    The Cape Diaries are the private and unrevised records on which Lady Anne based her Journals. Consequently they express Lady Anne's uncensored views on a wide variety of topics, social and political. The diaries are not only illuminating but also vastly entertaining because of her brilliant command of language and the pleasure she took in the act of writing itself....
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  • The Cape Journals of Lady Anne Barnard 1797-1798
    Edited by A.M. Lewin Robinson with Margaret Lenta and Dorothy Driver
    Volume:
    II-24 (1993)
    Print Status:
    Out of Print
    Lady Anne's journals were revised from her original diaries and produced for the interest of her immediate family and friends. They were never intended for publication. However, they are invaluable in the light which they cast on 'the interesting domestic particulars of life in Cape Town', dealing with matters which male writers ignored. In addition, her place in society, as...
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  • Briefwisseling van Hendrik Swellengrebel Jr. oor Kaapse Sake 1779-1792
    Uitgegee met inleiding en aantekeninge deur dr. G.J. Schutte. With an English summary by Dr A.J. Böeseken assisted by Prof. H.M. Robertson
    Volume:
    II-13 (1982)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Hendrik Swellengrebel Jr (1734-1803) was the son of Hendrik Swellengrebel who served as governor for a number of years and retained extensive properties there. The younger Swellengrebel lived a comfortable life in the Netherlands, but visited the Cape between 1776-1777. Thereafter he retained an interest in Cape affairs. He became associated with the rebel Cape Patriot movement and did much...
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  • Beschryvinge van Kaap der Goede Hoope, met de zaaken daar toe behoorende, door François Valentyn, 1726. Dl. II.
    Edited by Dr. E. H. Raidt with English Translation by Maj. R. Raven-Hart
    Volume:
    II-4 (1973)
    Print Status:
    Out of print
    This second part of Valentyn's travels continues with the account of his visit in 1702 and a later visit of 1714. It includes a lengthy account of the customs of the Khoi and their language, the fauna to be encountered and the early history of the settlement.
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  • Beschryvinge van Kaap der Goede Hoope, met de zaaken daar toe behoorende, door François Valentyn, 1726. Dl. I.
    Edited and annotated by Prof. P. Serton, Dr. W.J. de Kock, Maj. R. Raven-Hart. Final Editor Dr. E.H. Raidt. English translation by R. Raven-Hart and introduction by P. Serton
    Volume:
    II-2 (1971)
    Print Status:
    Out of print
    François Valentyn (1666-1727) was sent out to the Dutch East Indies as a young man to work as a minister of religion. His interests extended to the natural world which he encountered in the Moluccas and the Cape. Valentyn visited the Cape several times over a period of almost 30 years and observed the changes occurring in the fledgling colony...
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  • M.D. Teenstra - De vruchten mijner werkzaamheden, gedurende mijne reize over de Kaap de Goede Hoop, naar Java en terug, over St Helena, naar de Nederlanden, 1830
    Introduction by F.C.L. Bosman and a linguistic view by Prof. Dr. J.L.M. Franken; with a summary in English by P.J. Smuts
    Volume:
    I-24 (1943)
    Print Status:
    Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)
    M.D. Teenstra was a Dutch gentleman-farmer, who visited the Cape in 1825. During the course of his stay he went for a cure at the Caledon baths, and visited Genadendal and Cape Agulhas, returning to Cape Town via Franschhoek and Stellenbosch. His observations are acute and full and he made full use of statistics and other official information available to...
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  • Mentzel, O.F. - A geographical-topographical description of the Cape of Good Hope. Part II
    Translated from the German by H.J. Mandelbrote
    Volume:
    I-6 (1924)
    Print Status:
    Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)
    The second part of Mentzel's account of life at the Cape ranges widely, from revenues available to the Cape government, to the daily life of the burghers, public auctions and the treatment of slaves.
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  • De Mist, J.A. - Memorandum containing recommendations for the form and administration of government at the Cape of Good Hope, 1802
    Original Dutch text with an English version by M.K. Jeffreys and Preface by S.F.N. Gie
    Volume:
    I-3 (1920)
    Print Status:
    Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)
    This report by De Mist, prepared and completed in January 1802 in Amsterdam, recommends changes to be made to the government of the Cape during the critical years between the two British occupations. It also ranges widely over social, economic and political conditions of the Cape at the end of the 18th century.
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  • Mentzel, O.F. - Life at the Cape in the mid-eighteenth century, being the biography of Rudolph Siegfried Allemann, Captain of the Military Forces at the Cape of Good Hope
    Translated from the German by M. Greenlees; Notes by Kathleen M Jeffreys
    Volume:
    I-2 (1919)
    Print Status:
    Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)
    This 'biography' of Allemann is, in fact, an entertaining account of social life at the Cape during the mid-18th century. The topics range from the structure of the military forces to the life of slaves, and the revolt of Etienne Barbier to shipwrecks and the financial prospects of young women.
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