Report from the Select Committee on the 'Kafir Tribes' - Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index.

Language: English

Published by London, House of Commons, 1851

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15.5 cm25.5 cm. X, 607 pages with two manuscript pages preceding the printed report. The manuscript pages title and detail the content and are bearing in pencil the name "J.J.Freeman" [Reverend Joseph John Freeman was one of the people who were called in to give evidence]. Hardcover / Late 20th - century navy half-leather with gilt lettering on maroon spinelabel with raised bands. Marbled paper-covered boards. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very clean and bright. Bookstamp of the 'Incorporated Law Society of the United Kingdom' on endpapers, titlepage and preliminary pages. Inked titling to endpapers. From the Report: " The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Relations between this Country and the Kafir and Other Tribes on our South African Frontier, and who were empowered to Report the Minutes of Evidence taken before them to the House." Kafir (or Kaffir) was a (non-derogatory) term used by the British in reference to the Xhosa people and the region of south-eastern Africa. This report was completed as the British were fighting the latest in a series of wars with the Xhosa. The British Cape Colony, under Governor and High Commissioner Sir Harry Smith, had pushed its frontier north, annexing territories far beyond the original Dutch and British settlements. This expansion resulted in conflict with the Boers of the Orange Free State, and later the Xhosa nation in the Eastern cape. (Wikipedia) The Report also has accounts of other Bantu tribes that were in the regions, including, Hottentots (Khoikhoi), Zulu, Griqua etc. The Committee was chaired by Henry Labouchere.

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Title
Report from the Select Committee on the 'Kafir Tribes' - Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index.
Author
[Select Committee on Kafir Tribes / Henry Labouchere] [Freeman, Joseph John (J.J.) and others]
Publisher
London, House of Commons
Publication year
1851
Condition
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Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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