Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope

The genre of microhistory has given Indigenous Khoikhoi individuals of modest status a voice and a place in South African historiography. This book examines the lived and everyday-life experiences of Khoikhoi characters in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial South Africa.

Russel Viljoen is professor of history at the University of South Africa.

Contents Introduction: Microhistory and Reclaiming Histories of the Modest Chapter 1. Love, Lust and Loathe: The Story of "Lost Love": Griet and Hendrik Eksteen, c.1739-1759 Chapter 2. Master, Malcontent, and Murderer: Khoikhoi Andries and Johannes Adriaan de Necker in Dutch-South Africa, c.1764-1766 Chapter 3. Jan Paerl c.1788-1851: Restitutionist, Religious Prophet, and Respectable Convert Chapter 4. "Soil Once His Own": The Colonial and Christian World of Lebrecht Hans Ari: A Khoikhoi and Moravian Convert at the Cape, c.1774-1864 Chapter 5. "Sketching the Khoikhoi": George French Angas and His Depiction of Genadendal Khoikhoi Characters at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1847