Sugar and settlers
Subtitle: a history of the Natal South Coast 1850-1910
By: Duncan L. du Bois
Edition: First edition
Publisher: SUN Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloemfontein
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781920382704
Subjects: History; Sugar trade
Description: Duncan Du Bois provides a detailed and fascinating history of a hitherto much-neglected part of what was the colony of Natal. Based primarily on original archival research, he traces the southward advance of the white settler frontier and its sugar-based economy from Isipingo to the Mzimkulu river and, without the sugar engine, to the Mtamvuna.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. 1. The settlement of Isipingo; title: 2. Southward colonising presence; title: 3. The birth of Alfred County; title: 4. Alexandra County; title: 5. A decade of lost opportunities; title: 6. The Thomas Reynolds years; title: 7. Cinderella County. Part 2. 8. A review of African interaction with colonisation; title: 9. Indians of the South Coast. Part 3.10. Economic growth, pestilence and war; title: 11. Coast of dreams and stagnation.