Sugar and settlers: a history of the Natal South Coast 1850-1910
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 a...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
PART 1. 1. THE SETTLEMENT OF ISIPINGO
2. SOUTHWARD COLONISING PRESENCE
3. THE BIRTH OF ALFRED COUNTY
4. ALEXANDRA COUNTY
5. A DECADE OF LOST OPPORTUNITIES
6. THE THOMAS REYNOLDS YEARS
7. CINDERELLA COUNTY. PART 2. 8. A REVIEW OF AFRICAN INTERACTION WITH
COLONISATION
9. INDIANS OF THE SOUTH COAST. PART 3.10. ECONOMIC GROWTH, PESTILENCE
AND WAR
11. COAST OF DREAMS AND STAGNATION
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
Sugar and
A history of the Natal South Coast 1850-1910
Duncan L Du Bois
SUN PRESS
Contents
PREFACE i
PART 1 1
CHAPTER 1: THE SETTLEMENT OF ISIPINCO 3
Introduction 5
Agricultural experiments 11
Labour shortage 15
Sugar mills: A yardstick of progress 17
Indentured Indians 20
End of an era 23
Forging community 26
Concluding remarks 30
In closing 32
CHAPTER 2: SOUTHWARD COLONISINC PRESENCE 33
Introduction 35
Chief Mnini s relocation 37
Missions and missionaries 39
Henry Francis Fynn 41
Settlement of Lower Mkomanzi 45
Umzinto Sugar Company 48
Framing the future 50
In closing 52
CHAPTER 3: THE BIRTH OF ALFRED COUNTY 53
Introduction 55
Nomansland 56
Alfred County, 1866-1870 66
Stagnation 68
In closing 72
CHAPTER 4: ALEXANDRA COUNTY, 1860-1870 73
Pioneering growth 75
Labour question 80
Travel and transport
Sugar prospects
Shipping
fGrowing European presence
Georgina Nelson
Crant violations
Economic trends
Recession in Alexandra County, 1865-1866
Sugar planting at crossroads
Social relations
Africans
Settler society
Public works
In closing
CHAPTER 5: A DECADE OF LOST OPPORTUNITIES
Introduction
Alexandra County
Bridge over the Mkomanzi
Roads
J B Aiken and the Railway Bill
Seagoing transport
Labour and sugar production
Economic growth
Political representation
The Anglo-Zulu War
Social life
Alfred County
Minimal government
Lost opportunities
Aiken enterprise
In closing
CHAPTER 6: THE THOMAS REYNOLDS YEARS
Introduction
Accessing the Mzimkulu
Mzimkulu harbour works: The struggle for government funding
Roads, a post office and a township
Request for a magistracy in Lower Umzimkulu 166
Official indifference 168
Telegraph link 170
Applying for fiscal port status: 1883 173
Applying for fiscal port status: 1884 173
Applying for fiscal port status: 1885 176
Elements of handicap: The Mkomanzi - the punt, shipping, a bridge 178
Marburg s Norwegian settlers 181
Development overview: Alfred County 184
Development overview: Alexandra County 185
Political engagement 187
Inclosing 190
CHAPTER 7: CINDERELLA COUNTY 191
Introduction 193
General Sir John jarvis Bisset 193
Fiscal port status 196
Bridge over the Mkomanzi 199
Factionalism 199
Cold fever 201
Tardy progress 204
Hime and the bridge over the Mkomanzi 206
Representation in the Legislative Council 207
Coastal shipping 210
Mzinto Bay 212
Mzimkulu mouth 213
Fiscal port 214
Evaluation of Cinderella status 215
In closing 220
PART 2 221
CHAPTER 8: A REVIEW OF AFRICAN INTERACTION
WITH COLONISATION 223
Introduction 225
Land and labour 225
Drunkenness 231
Crime and security 233
Environment
Education
Health
P Unrest
In closing
CHAPTER 9: INDIANS ON THE SOUTH COAST
Introduction
Domestic conditions amongst the indentured:
Pre-Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
Human rights abuses and the Wragg Commission of 1885-1987
Human rights abuses post-Wragg Commission
Land grants
Education
Indian commercial presence
Public representatives and Indians
Some remarks
Case study: Reynolds Bros, exploitation of indentured labour
The Reynolds Inquiry
In closing
PART 3
CHAPTER 10: ECONOMIC CROWTH, PESTILENCE AND WAR
Introduction
Shipping on the Mzimkulu
Railways
The Isipingo-Umzinto railway
The Park Rynie-Port Shepstone railway
Other developments
Property investment
Tourism
Commercial agriculture
Locusts and rinderpest
Settler society
Patrician lifestyles
Politics
Recreation
The Anglo-Boer War
Inclosing 313
CHAPTER 11: COAST OF DREAMS AND STAGNATION 315
Introduction 317
Property development 317
Social life 322
Railway service and extension 326
Port Shepstone harbour 333
Political issues and trends: Towards union 341
African unrest and the Bhambatha rebellion 341
Alexandra s representatives 342
The 1906 election 344
The Union issue 346
In closing 349
CONCLUSION 351
BIBLIOCRAPHY 365
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 376
INDEX 377
APPENDIX A: EMPLOYMENT OF INDENTURED INDIANS 384
APPENDIX B: DIRECTORIES OF MALE INHABITANTS 385
APPENDIX C: SHIPPING MOVEMENTS TO AND FROM
DURBAN, 1880-1902 391
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