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050 4 $aHV7150.5.Z8$bC35 2015
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100 1 $aPenn, Nigel,$eauthor.
245 10 $aMurderers, miscreants and mutineers :$bearly colonial Cape lives /$cNigel Penn.
264 1 $aAuckland Park :$bJacana Media,$c2015.
300 $axv, 286 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe mistress, the master and the slave: adultery and murder on a Swartland farm, 1714 -- Casper, Crebis and the knecht: a story of rape, homicide and violence in the Tygerberg, 1727 -- Great escapes: deserting soldiers in the time of Governor Noodt, 1727-1729 -- The Swiss Meuron Regiment at the Cape, 1783-1788 -- The Onder Bokkeveld ear atrocity: frontier justice and the Caledon Code, 1812-1825 -- A wolf in sheep's clothing: Johannes Seidenfaden, missionary at the Cape, 1805-1825.
520 $aThis work is the long-awaited sequel to the historian Nigel Penn's award-winning book Rogues, Rebels and Runaways, in which he entertained and informed readers with stories of the lives of some remarkable characters from early Cape history. In this new volume Penn, a consummate raconteur and storyteller, brings to life an assortment of extraordinary personalities from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. There is Maria Mouton, the first white woman at the Cape to be executed, for her adulterous affair with a slave and the murder of her husband. Then, too, there is Johannes Seidenfaden, an LMS missionary whose 'enormities' so shocked Dr John Philip, the LMS superintendent, that he branded him 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' (Seidenfaden, a married man, had not only attempted to seduce his Khoikhoi housekeeper on five occasions but also turned his mission station of Suurbraak, just outside Swellendam, into his own personal fiefdom and impoverished all the Khoikhoi inhabitants.) Other chapters tell stories of desertion by ill-treated soldiers in Cape Town, who intended to escape to Mozambique but got no further than the Hottentots Holland Mountains, where they were apprehended before being hanged; the escapades of the Swiss Meuron Regiment at the Cape; and the 'ear atrocity' in the Onder Bokkeveld near Ceres. These remarkable stories, told with elan, erudition and humour, throw light on our extraordinary past and reveal much about social relations and human experience in the early Cape colony --$cBack cover.
650 0 $aCrime$zSouth Africa$zCape of Good Hope$xHistory.
650 0 $aCriminals$zSouth Africa$zCape of Good Hope$xHistory.
650 0 $aAdultery$zSouth Africa$zCape of Good Hope.
650 0 $aMurder$zSouth Africa$zCape of Good Hope.
650 0 $aHomicide$zSouth Africa$zCape of Good Hope.
651 0 $aSouth Africa$xSocial life and customs$y18th century$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aSouth Africa$xSocial life and customs$y19th century$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aCape of Good Hope (South Africa)$vBiography.
651 0 $aCape of Good Hope (South Africa)$xHistory.
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