Prison Personnel in the Colony of Natal from circa 1850 to the Prison Reform Commission of 1905-1906
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https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2023/v26i0a15896Keywords:
Colonial Natal, ; Gaol system, Prison personnel, Durban, PietermaritzburgAbstract
White colonial ideology was produced as a result of the fractured nature of the relations – social, political and economic – between black and white in the colony of Natal. Apart from the racial tensions between warders and prisoners of different races, tensions within the colonial edifice itself – particularly between police officers and gaol officials – reveal deep divisions within the colonial state. The article is primarily based on material housed in the Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository; some quotations from The Black Peril by an imprisoned journalist, George Webb Hardy, have also been included.
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Queen v Jantjes (1888-1889) 6 SC 20
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Law 3 of 1876
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Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository: Colonial Secretary's Office, Natal (PAR: CSO)
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