White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African HistoryIn this first comparative history of race relations in the United States and South Africa, George M.Fredrickson uncovers parallels and differences in the origin and expression of white supremacy in the two countries. He traces the history of slavery in its different guises from the colonial period through the coming of industrialization, when the paths of the two countries diverged dramatically, to our own turbulent present. |
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African Afro-American American apartheid areas attitudes became blacks Boers British burghers C. R. Boxer Cape Colony Cape Town Christian Civil colonists color bar cultural developed discrimination dominant Dutch early East economic eighteenth century Elphick emancipation English enslavement equality established ethnic European fact force frontier Giliomee heathen Hence History ideology immigrants indentured Indian Indian removal indigenous industrial inter-racial intermarriage Jim Crow Johannesburg Khoikhoi kind labor system land large numbers limited London majority manumission marriages masters ment miscegenation mixed mulatto nation native nonwhite North northern Orange Free passim pattern plantation planters political population race mixture race relations racial racism Republicans republics result role rule savage segregation servants servitude settlement slaveholders slavery slaves social society South Africa southern status suffrage territorial tion trade traditional Transkei Transvaal Trek trekboers unions United Virginia Voortrekkers western Cape white settlers white supremacy white workers women Xhosa York