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

In this book, Russel Viljoen has once again demonstrated the power of microhistory for the understanding of the colonial past of the Khoikhoi. On the basis of meticulous archival research, he has reconstructed the lives, or at any rate the most dramatic parts of the lives, of a number of the Khoikhoi individuals living in Swellendam district. He has done it with verve, and most importantly he has shown how an individual's experience becomes intermeshed with that of others to create the wider story of Cape Colonial history.

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

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

In this book, Russel Viljoen has once again demonstrated the power of microhistory for the understanding of the colonial past of the Khoikhoi. On the basis of meticulous archival research, he has reconstructed the lives, or at any rate the most dramatic parts of the lives, of a number of the Khoikhoi individuals living in Swellendam district. He has done it with verve, and most importantly he has shown how an individual's experience becomes intermeshed with that of others to create the wider story of Cape Colonial history.

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

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

In this book, Russel Viljoen has once again demonstrated the power of microhistory for the understanding of the colonial past of the Khoikhoi. On the basis of meticulous archival research, he has reconstructed the lives, or at any rate the most dramatic parts of the lives, of a number of the Khoikhoi individuals living in Swellendam district. He has done it with verve, and most importantly he has shown how an individual's experience becomes intermeshed with that of others to create the wider story of Cape Colonial history.

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