eprintid: 10129721
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datestamp: 2021-06-17 09:37:08
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creators_name: Reid, D
title: Shadrach Boyce Mama and the 'Kaffir Depot': Navigating Imperial Networks to Agitate against the Forced Removal of Xhosa Women and Children from Cape Town, May-December 1879
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F28
keywords: History of Cape Town, imperial networks, colonial history, knowledge production, Kaffir depot, indentured labour, native informants, Aborigines Protection Society, Shadrach Mama, Saul Solomon
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: On 15 May 1879, 60 Xhosa – primarily women and children – were forcibly removed by the Cape government from an indentured labour market in Cape Town called the ‘Kaffir Depot’. The Xhosa interpreter who worked at the Depot, Shadrach Boyce Mama, was present at their removal and witnessed one of the women screaming and attempting to kill herself rather than be ripped from her children. In response to this moment of intense colonial violence, Mama fought throughout 1879 to publicise the Cape government's cruel actions. This paper tells the story of Mama's campaign on the behalf of the women and children expelled from the Depot, and demonstrates how Mama moved fluidly through local newspapers, colonial politics and imperial humanitarian spaces to demand justice for those so brutally ejected from Cape Town.
date: 2020-10-24
date_type: published
publisher: UNISA PRESS
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2020.1827018
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1864388
doi: 10.1080/02582473.2020.1827018
lyricists_name: Reid, Darren
lyricists_id: DSREI52
actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie
actors_id: MDDEW97
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: South African Historical Journal
volume: 72
number: 4
pagerange: 561-578
pages: 18
citation:        Reid, D;      (2020)    Shadrach Boyce Mama and the 'Kaffir Depot': Navigating Imperial Networks to Agitate against the Forced Removal of Xhosa Women and Children from Cape Town, May-December 1879.                   South African Historical Journal , 72  (4)   pp. 561-578.    10.1080/02582473.2020.1827018 <https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2020.1827018>.       Green open access   
 
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