Martial Law and the Rule of Law in the Eastern Cape, 1830–1880
Abstract:In 1814, the Cape Colony was ceded by the Dutch to the British. The territory extended as far as the Great Fish River to the east and the Koussie River to the north. This land was home to approximately 60,000 people, of whom 27,000 were white descendants of Dutch and Huguenot settlers, and 17,000 indigenous Khoi, or 'Hottentot' people. For much of the nineteenth century, the border of the Cape colony was unsettled, as a series of 'frontier wars' was fought between the colonists and the Xhosa, which would ultim… Show more
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