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REVIEW ARTICLES

Reviewing ‘The Evidence’ for The Great Treks

Pages 191-202 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • 2002 . South African Historical Journal , 46 : 310 Neil Parsons, ‘Reviving the Treks Debates’, (May
  • Ibid., 311
  • Saunders , C. 2002 . ‘Great Treks’ . South African Historical Journal , 46 : 300 (May
  • David Lowenthal, personal communication, recalling his own experience with Curti's assignment
  • Legassick , M. 2002 . ‘The Great Treks: The Evidence’ . South African Historical Journal , 46 : 285 (May
  • Ibid, 284
  • Ibid., 284–5
  • Ibid., 288
  • 1982 . mfecane 100 This is not the only example. The late John Cell, when translating for the benefit of American readers, simply rendered it as ‘holocaust’: John W. Cell, The Highest State of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South (Cambridge
  • Legassick . ‘The Great Treks’, 292–3
  • Ibid, 293
  • Ibid, 291
  • Wagner , R. , Marks , S. and Atmore , A. 1980 . Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa 316 London eds, (Surely Legassick must know this essay, for his own best-known work appears in the same collection
  • Boeyens , J. C.A. , Eldredge , E. A. and Morton , F. 1994 . Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier 198 Pietermaritzburg
  • Eldredge , E. ‘Slaving Raiding across the Cape Frontier’, in ibid., 114
  • Ibid., 109. This is by no means an isolated quotation. Eldredge piles on the archival evidence, page after page
  • Wright , P. and D'Urban . 1984–91 . Griqua Town, 6 Aug 1837, in B.J. Leverton, ed., South African Archival Records, Important Cape Documents, vol. 6 (Pretoria, Records of Natal, Volume 3, 83–5
  • Kent Rasmussen , R. 1978 . Migrant Kingdom: Mzilikazi ‘s Ndebele in South Africa 18 Cape Town
  • Ross , R. 1976 . Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in History 16 Cambridge
  • Ibid., 18
  • Legassick , M. 1969 . ‘The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780–1840’, (PhD thesis, UCLA, 403, 551
  • Legassick . ‘The Great Treks’, 296
  • Ibid, 294
  • Hartley , G. and Hamilton , C. 1995 . The Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History 410 Johannesburg and Pietermaritz-burg
  • Ibid., 412
  • 1991 . South African Historical Journal , 25 : 3 – 21 . ‘The Great Trek in Relation to the Mfecane: A Reassessment’
  • Keegan , T. J. 1996 . Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order London

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