Cape Colony · Primary documents
The Record: Or, a Series of Official Papers Relative to the Condition and Treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa
Donald Moodie, 1838
Summary
Donald Moodie's extraordinary compilation of Dutch East India Company records, court proceedings, and official despatches from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, translated into English. The single most important primary source for the history of Khoikhoi and San peoples under VOC rule, preserving documents that describe frontier violence, cattle raids, and colonial policy in meticulous detail.
Topics
Cape Colony, Dutch East India Company, Khoikhoi, San, Primary documents, VOC
Bibliographic Information
- Author
- Donald Moodie
- Year
- 1838
- Language(s)
- English, Dutch
- Period
- Cape Colony
- Perspective
- Primary documents
- Access
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