The Scots in South Africa

The Scots in South Africa. This book is the first full-length study of the role of the Scots from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It highlights the interaction of Scots with African peoples, the manner in which missions and schools were credited with producing Black Scotsmen and the ways in which they pursued many distinctive policies. It also deals with the inter-weaving of issues of gender, class and race as well as with the means by which Scots clung to their ethnicity through founding various social and cultural societies.

The Scots in South Africa offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history and in the process illuminates a significant field of the Scottish Diaspora that has so far received little attention. The Scots presence at the Cape. Radicals, evangelicals, the Scottish Enlightenment and Cape colonial autocracy. Scots missions and the frontier. Maintaining Scots identity. The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity, Identity, Gender and Race, 1772-1914 (Studies in Imperialism).