Khoisan

How To Use Khoisan In A Sentence

• The earliest known inhabitants of South Africa were Pygmies and Khoisan.
• Indentured Khoisan servants and slaves, on the other hand, must have been at work on Groote Valleij at the time of the auction, but the only record of their presence is the sale of Lubbe's slaves. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• Settlers brought with them both chattel slaves and the habit of indenturing captive Khoisan. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct race of very ancient origin.
• Nell's work demonstrates that a few families of Khoisan or slave origin managed to keep a tenuous hold on land through the first half of the nineteenth century, but for most Khoisan in the region, it is safe to assume that, as Giliomee wrote about the eastern frontier, "Such was the structure of colonial society that even Ordinance 50 of 1828 failed materially to change the position of the Khoikhoi. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• What did they grind there — local herbs, spices from the VOC trade, or medicinal buchu collected on the farm by Khoisan servants? Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• Slaves, indentured servants, land owners, and independent Khoisan formed variously permuted relationships with each other and with the natural environment. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• Along with porcelain teapots and copper candle snuffers, the inventories locate Indian Ocean slaves in frontier households, while collateral sources indicate the presence of Khoisan inboekselinge. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• Company edicts protected Khoisan from enslavement from the earliest days of VOC settlement, but Jan van Riebeeck employed local servants, including Krotoa, whose incorporation into colonial society as Eva was never complete. 22 Her liminal status was a harbinger of things to come for Khoisan, whose own family connections or sense of belonging were often no match for the colonists 'insatiable demand for labor and the dominant society's concomitant ability to construe subordinate identities as subordinated labor. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• First of all, Khoisan is an artificial grouping of two distinctly different groups, the San and the Khoi-Khoi (strandloopers and bushmen for you old apartheid educated folks).