Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-171). / In 1843, William Sammons founded the peculiarly named Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843 -1851) in Cape Town. Claiming to be a ‘register of facts, fiction, news, literature, commerce and amusement’, the African Journal was a hybrid newspaper and literary and satirical periodical aimed at an Anglophone immigrant readership in the period between the abolition of slavery and the granting of representative government to the Cape Colony.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/11558 |
Date | January 2010 |
Creators | Holdridge, Christopher Arthur |
Contributors | Penn, Nigel |
Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Historical Studies |
Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Master Thesis, Masters, MA |
Format | application/pdf |
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