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Title:Plantations, Passes and Proletarians: Labour and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century Natal
Author:Harries, PatrickISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:13
Issue:3
Period:April
Pages:372-399
Language:English
Geographic terms:Natal
South Africa
Subjects:colonists
British
labour migration
colonialism
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Urbanization and Migration
Labor and Employment
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636388
Abstract:In the three years following 1849, some 5,000 British colonists settled in the district of Natal. Many bought land along the coast and turned their attention to subtropical crops; others moved into the interior where they established ranches alongside the Voortrekkers who had earlier settled the upland areas. By 1857 the settler population stood at 8,000 and a regular supply of labour had become a central factor in the development of an export economy. This article is concerned with the response of the Natal colonial State to the demand for African labour made by the coastal planters and with the origins, development and decline of one of the first organized forms of migrant labour in Southern Africa. Notes, ref.
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