Children and Freedom in the Cape Colony: Age, Labour and Apprenticeship in the Post-Emancipation British Empire

Between 1830 and 1850 what it meant to be a child changed in fundamental ways across Britain's expanding empire.

This open access book presents a child-focused history of the period surrounding slave emancipation in the Cape colony and the British Empire. The status of children and childhood were central to discussions of the meaning of freedom in the Cape colony between 1820 and 1850. It proposes that Cape history can be reappraised by adding the category of 'age' to discussions of race, g...