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Note 54: Newton-King, Masters and Servants, 205. back

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Note 84: Newton-King makes a similar argument in Master and Servants. back

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This perceived disjuncture between material wealth and markers of social status clearly disturbs Sparrman's Swedish-formed sensibilities, which did not adjust to colonial realities. 47 As Newton-King convincingly shows, Cape stock farmers preferred to keep their wealth in animals; they were likely to spend any surplus on agricultural implements before household goods. 48

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This position was subsequently supported and eloquently elaborated by Robert Ross, whose work in this regard is cataloged by Susan Newton-King, Masters and Servants on the Eastern Cape Frontier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 41n35.

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"Forging a Reputation: Artisan Honour and the Cape Town Blacksmith Strike of 1752," Kronos 28 (2002), 43 – 65; Susan Newton-King, "For the Love of Adam: Two Sodomy Trials at the Cape of Good Hope," Kronos 28 (2002), 21 – 42; Ross, Status and Respectability; Viljoen, Jan Paerl. back

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Note 24: Newton-King, "The Enemy Within," 233. back

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Note 14: Newton-King, Masters and Servants, 230 – 31. back

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For Susan Newton-King, the frontier era in Graaff-Reinet ended with the quelling of a two-pronged rebellion against VOC authority from 1799 to 1801.9 In Nigel Penn's view, the northern frontier closed a decade later, marked by the formal subjugation of Khoisan labor with the Caledon Code and the careful administrative scrutiny recorded in the Collins Report, both in 1809.10

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Note 4: Trends in the Cedarberg-area inventories mirror those from Eastern Cape frontier households reported by Susan Newton-King, Masters and Servants on the Eastern Cape Frontier, 1760 – 1803 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

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Note 79: Newton-King, Masters and Servants, 196 – 203. back

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