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Sam Sly's African Journal and the role of satire in colonial British identity at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1840-1850

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/11558
Date January 2010
CreatorsHoldridge, Christopher Arthur
ContributorsPenn, Nigel
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Historical Studies
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MA
Formatapplication/pdf

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