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Elizabeth Elbourne (Department of History and Classical Studies, 黑料社)听

"Hunter Gatherers between Clientage, Child Trafficking and Genocide: Reading Missionary Papers for Evidence of Interactions between San, Settlers and other Africans in early Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa"

In the early nineteenth century, San (or so-called "Bushmen") hunter gatherers were being killed and pushed from their lands, and their children were frequently trafficked in the regions beyond the Cape Colony around the Gariep River. This was the result of migrants of various kinds flooding into their area and of conflict exploding over resources in a time of political upheaval and drought. Missionaries of the London Missionary Society, often recently arrived themselves and frequently ill-informed, sent back to their home societies long personal diaries as well as more official reports that referenced these processes. Such sources are among the few remaining written records from this time and place. What can these papers reveal about the complex dynamics of the period? How should we read the papers of missionaries, both inadvertent witnesses to violent transformation and important participants?

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