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radingwanaphatane

Guns, Race, and Skill in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa.pdf - 2 views

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  • The Comaroffs' approach offers a good starting point from which to investigate what everyday practice meant, ideologically, with respect to firearms - carrying them, caring for them, storing them, not to mention hunting and fighting with them. It happens that skills with guns and the perceived and real links to political power weapons and skills conferred were debated extensively in southern Africa in the nineteenth century. Everyday practice as it related to firearms, as well as the representation of everyday practice, was highly ideological, as may be seen in the efforts of those who wished to regulate the spread o
  • se methodological challenges, this article seeks to explore two stories together. In one, southern Africans of the early nineteenth century adapted guns and skills to local circumstances, and mimeomorphic firearm skills that would appear to be universal turn out to be subject to local variation. As local adaptations occurred, guns improved, game disappeared, and skills declined. This is an empirical argument that contradicts cherished myths about colonial frontiersmen in southern Africa being natural marksmen, as well as less pleasant myths about the technological incompetence of Africans. Meanwhile, a related body of evidence emerges that is best examined through discourse analysis. This is the story of changing settler representations of firearms and shooting skills. Over the course of the nineteenth century, depictions of guns shifted emphasis. Early on, settlers described guns as ordinary frontier artifacts, but by the 1870s they depicted them as dangerous tools that, in skilled hands, could be used either to support or to undermine the emerging colonial or
  • Skill and Environment What skills were required to fire a gun in the nineteenth century? How were they changing? At the beginning of the century, most of the world's soldiers used muzzle-loading, smoothbore, flintlock muskets.9 When the musket was fired, the ball bounced down the sides of the barrel and out in the general direction in which it had been aimed; the smoothbore was an inaccurate weapon. Soldiers were drilled to load and fire in volleys, a social skill that compensated for the musket's technical shortco
THABELO SADIKI

Firearms in Southern Africa: A survey.pdf - 5 views

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  • There was also a constant supply of firearms to the 'resisters' through the desertion of Khoi servants and slaves, who frequently fled with their masters' weapons to join the Khoisan in the mountains
    • THABELO SADIKI
      THABELO SADIKI on 26 Apr 23
       
      This explains how the Khoi San people got the firearm they used to fight the colonisers of the Cape
  • Later in the century the southern, and subsequently the northern, Tswana chiefdoms acquired firearms from Cape traders, and thus equipped were able to participate in the ivory trade and in the armed violence maintained (if not caused) by the migration of whites on to the highveld. Similarly the southern Sotho became armed with guns and, perhaps just as significantly, acquired horses
    • THABELO SADIKI
      THABELO SADIKI on 26 Apr 23
       
      Supporting other claims by some sources that many early African societies traded their ivory for firearms once they were introduced
radingwanaphatane

I.pdf - 2 views

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  • gun numbers of flintlock firearms shipped to Africa in the late 17 th and early 18 th centuries, precisely when slave exports begin to increase. 14 gun the matchlock musket, had not proved to be very effective in tropical climates, and the Catholic Church prohibited their sale to non-Christians, although some were distributed to Kings as gifts and others were captured by Africans in skirmishes with Europeans. The sale of large numbers gun gun prohibitions. 1
  • gun
  • Using war-related variations in cargo shipments to Africa, I identify and estimate a variety of short-run slave export supply functions. I find that in the early stages of expansion in slave exports, the gun initiated a “raid or be raided” arms race in Africa
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  • What about the gun-slave cycle? Historians have documented dramatic increases in the
  • Before then, the older gunpowder technology,
  • f guns and gunpowder to Africans began with Protestant slave traders not bound by Catholic
  • guns and gunpowder to Africans began with Protestant slave traders not bound by Catholic prohibitions. 15 The Dutch were the first to sell large numbers, followed by the English as their participation in the slave trade expanded.
  • There were so many kinds of guns that is would prove difficult to construct a reliable annual index. Also, firearms are durable goods, so in order to convert trade flows into the stocks available for slave production one would need estimates of depreciation rates, and ideally a different depreciation rate for each type of gun. And even if the stock of guns could be estimated, their effective capacity as weaponry is still largely determined by the amount of gunpowder available to activate them.
  • Gunpowder, on the other hand, is a more homogeneous product and much easier to handle quantitatively. While there are different grades of gunpowder, the differences are matters of degree, and a poor grade was always shipped to Africa to match the poor quality of the firearms shipped there [see Inikori (1977), West (1991) and Richards (1980)].
mzwandile02

Zulu War: Further Reports on Suing for Peace by King - 6 views

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History 2A guns mzwandile malevy 221064860

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  • mzwandile02 on 26 Apr 23
     
    In this article they intended to analyse how the white people were trying to avoid the war between them and the Zulus. Cetewayo one of the chiefs in the Zulus wrote a letter asking for peace in terms of war with English people and surrender firearms or guns and coming up with ways of making peace rather fighting a war with guns.
mpumelelomeleh

Carnarvon Papers. Vol. XLIX a (ff. 177). Correspondence and Papers Relating to South Af... - 2 views

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  • mpumelelomeleh on 26 Apr 23
     
    This primary source document shows documented dates and names of people who believed in Christianity in the 19th century in South Africa. This document also exposes the relationship between colonization and Christianity. it also documents wars that were happening at the time and their response was to spread Christianity to colonize South African people
  • ujhistprof on 17 May 23
     
    Where does it do this? On what page?
mondlinzuza

Diigo PDF Reader - 4 views

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  • Southeast Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century witnessed the entrenchment of a settler colonial polity in Natal as well as the invasion and later annexation of the Zulu Kingdom by British forces. British settlers sought to make good their claims to control the land and labour of the region, particularly following the defeat of the Zulu military in 1879.
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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      The significance of war between these two groups indicates that African people did not stand aside while British settlers colonized them. The perception that Africans were naive and let outsides exploit them and their resources.
  • This essay traces the post-war career of a transfrontiersman and examines how John Dunn attempted to mobilise understandings of race and masculinity in his favour as a Britishappointed „Zulu chief.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      After they defeated the Zulu military they replace Zulu chief with the British Zulu chief.
  • As Cetshwayo‟s personal secretary and advisor, Dunn was treated as a client of the king and further initiated into Zulu economic and social systems, marrying women of Cetshwayo‟s choosing, and acquiring cattle and farmland. Dunn asserted that Cetshwayo‟s own izinduna supported his position, arguing, “You are living with us – you are one of us, but we don‟t know any other white man.” 7
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Dunn who is place as a Zulu ruler develop a friendship with king Cetshwayo. It evident that Cetshwayo wanted to be in good terms with white settlers.
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  • Then as now, race and gender remained both highly contested and contingent, tied to relations of power and requiring policing to maintain their effectiveness in a land that settlers believed to be under siege.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      white settler institutionalized gender inequality
  • amabutho
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Amabutho are groups of warriors or ibutho is an army
  • As relations between the Zulu kingdom and the Natal government reached their breaking point in 1878, Dunn frantically attempted to use his claims to authority to simultaneously end the potential for war and reinforce his own personal position in Zululand
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Dunn became neutral and the bridge between these two groups. Communicating with both sides to stabilized growing tensions between them.
  • defection
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Defection means deserting, and British settlers felt deserted by Dunn who was suppose to be in side.
  • The Zulus, particularly after their crushing victory over the British at Isandhlwana in January, filled British newspapers, periodicals, and conversations.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Zulus end up winning against the military equipped with guns.
mzwandile02

Guns, Race, and Skill in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa - 2 views

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  • mzwandile02 on 26 Apr 23
     
    this article states that plenty of guns were now distributed to Africa, this posed a threat to the communities as many people now had guns which is very dangerous for the Zulus against themselves and English and Boer people. IT was also for them to gain their selves protection.
mondlinzuza

JSTORE ZULU KINGDOM.pdf - 4 views

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  • The rise of the Zulu empire over a relatively short period of time, its powerful expansion over a wide territory, the overwhelming violence and terror involved, and the brutal European overthrow of the regime have long attracted scholarly attention from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists of African political systems.
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      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      It is fascination how the Zulu kingdom became powerful in the presence of British settlers. What tactics and strategies they use to fight against great weapons. The source of courage to take an almost impossible mission.
  • Shaka an illegitimate son of the Zulu chief, took refuge with the MthethwaS joined their army, and became one of its bravest warriors. When the chief of the Zulu died, Shaka seized power and reorganized the Zulu community along Mthethwa military lines based on age rather than kinship. Dingiswayo died in 1818 during a confrontation with the Ndwandwe community. Thereafter Shaka killed the legitimate heir of Dingiswayo appointed a favorite to be the new Mthethwa chiefs but soon subsumed the Mthethwa regiments under Zulu control and proclaimed himself the new ruler of the Zulu Kingdom.
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Shaka is more of lunatic. It morally wrong to betray the group that gave him a shelter by turning against them.
  • chiefdom
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      chiefdom mean a territory ruled by a chief.
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  • I present a brief history of the Zulu Kingdom from its formation to the European destruction of the empire (1808-1879) and trace the factors that can account for the evolution of Zulu politics in terms of Carneiro's and Service's state formation theories, indicating the strengths and limitations of the theories
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      It was a king Cetshwayo's era when the Zulu kingdom overthrew white people after Shaka's ruling.
  • he reign of Shaka marks a crucial phase in the history of the Zulu Kingdom. After Shaka had seized power, he further developed the disciplined organization of the military. He introduced the assegai (a short thrusting spear) and trained the army to encircle the enemy in a shield-to-shield formation so that rival warriors could be stabbed at the hear
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Shaka introduced tactics and strategies to the Zulu military. He re-enforce weapons and shield to succeed almost every war.
  • . Shaka also resorted to violence to neutralize the powers of the Zulu sorcerers so that he alone would have a monopoly on magical practices
    • mondlinzuza
      mondlinzuza on 26 Apr 23
       
      Shaka's regime is most brutal era of all Zulu rulers.
mpumelelomeleh

Christian missions and independent African chiefdom in South Africa in the 19th century - 2 views

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  • mpumelelomeleh on 26 Apr 23
     
    This source explores ideas of the arrival of Christianity in South Africa in the 19th century. It talks about ideas of how the chiefs allowed missionaries to spread their religion because they also taught them about technology. It talks about how there was resistance from the Bantu people and their chiefs but eventually, they were successful in spreading their word as of now the statics of Christian people are very high. It also explores the ideas of baptism, how they introduced it, and how it was received. because the state of South Africa was very bad between the chiefs, the Zulus needed to form alliances and they were going to benefit from the white people who were missionaries guns, and other resources to be able to fight.
dzagana

AMKDIM965673722.pdf - 4 views

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ntsearelr

Primary Source.pdf - 1 views

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  • ntsearelr on 26 Apr 23
     
    In this document, a British consul is reporting on the resources of East Africa. From this we get to understand two things, firstly, Britain at the time did not have much influence on East Africa compared to other European colonizers such as Portugal. Secondly, numerable resources such as gold, silver, and copper are mentioned but Ivory at the time was in abundance and it was in demand thus the ivory trade in East Africa was flourishing and it comes to no surprise that nations like Britain wanted to be apart of the commercial industry in East Africa. For example, it is mentioned that in Mozambique two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of ivory was being exported (this was around the mid 1850s). Furthermore, Zanzibar is mentioned and said to have been exporting, along with ivory, a number of products and this was valued at five hundred British pounds per annum. Lastly, the British officer goes and mentions the resources and political structure of various countries in East Africa at the time, Ivory is mentioned in sixty percent of those discussed by the officer.
ramzeey

Missionaries in Africa (1).pdf - 2 views

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    This image shows missionaries that came to Africa as explorers and implemented Churches, schools.
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