Thomas Pringle

South African Pioneer, Poet and Abolitionist
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84701-052-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

A fine biography. [It] is a most satisfying book and an important contribution to South African scholarship. CAPE TIMES

Scottish poet, fighter for human rights in the Cape Colony, and abolitionist, reveals the role this key Enlightenment figure played in Africa and Britain.

This biography of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), poet, fighter for human rights in the Cape Colony, and abolitionist, reveals the role this key Enlightenment figure played in Africa and Britain. Honoured in South Africa as 'the father of South African English poetry', for his part in achieving a free press, for his fight for the settlers' rights in the colony, in Scotland as the founding editor of Blackwood's Magazine, and in England as instrumental inbringing in abolition, Thomas Pringle has not yet had the attention he deserves.

Born on the Scottish Borders, Pringle entered literary life in late Englightenment Edinburgh, but in 1820 led a party of settlers to theCape Colony. After running a school, launching a literary journal and co-editing the Cape's first independent newspaper, he formed a group to fight for democratic rights for both the settlers and the dispossessed indigenous people. His biography reveals the important part he played in the literary and political world across two continents, and in championing the Khoisan and the increasingly dispossessed Nguni people. On returning to England he became Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and on 15 June 1834 announced the implementation of abolition.

After actively opposing the apartheid government in South Africa Randolph Vigne worked in exile as a London publisher andlatterly, in Britain and South Africa, as author and editor of European and African historical studies.

Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe): UCT Press

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vigne, Randolph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface - Author's Note - I SCOTLAND: BORDER FARM TO LITERARY EDINBURGH (1789-1820)
The Elfin Band
Edinburgh: the Shallows
Edinburgh: at the Flood
A Long, a Last Adieu! - II THE CAPE FRONTIER: PIONEER, SETTLER LEADER (1820-1821)
Settler Leader: Arrival
At Glen Lynden
Beyond Glen Lynden - III CAPE TOWN & GENADENDAL: THE STAND AGAINST POWER (1822-1825)
Westward
'An Arrant Dissenter'
Vale of Grace
On the Frontier: the Final Year - IV THE FRONTIER, KARROO: RURAL RETREAT & THE 'GREAT CAUSE' (1825-1826)
Return to Glen Lynden
Karroo Turning Point
Last Months at Eildon
Return of the Settler - V LONDON LITERARY LIFE & THE ANTI-SLAVERY CAMPAIGN (1826-1833)
London Journalist & Editor
The Literary Life & Cape Achievements
Emancipation & After - VI SCOTLAND & HIGHGATE: A POET RETURNS TO HIS ROOTS & LAST WORKS (1830-1834)
'A Little Doctoring'
African Sketches: Responses
On Scottish Ground
Journey's End