eprintid: 10129721 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/12/97/21 datestamp: 2021-06-17 09:37:08 lastmod: 2022-04-27 06:10:25 status_changed: 2021-06-17 09:37:08 type: article metadata_visibility: show 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129721/3/Reid_shadrach-paper---accepted%20version.pdf