Resources: Books
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Published Primary Source Books Alberti, Ludwig. Ludwig Alberti's Account of the Tribal Life & Customs of the Xhosa in 1807, Translated by Dr. William Fehr. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1968. Berning, J.M. The Historical "Conversations" of Sir George Cory. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1989. ISBN 0636011976. Berning, formerly with the Cory Library at Rhodes, edited this collection of transcripts of the dozens of interviews that George Cory conducted in the Eastern Cape in the early twentieth century. Many of Cory's interviewees witnessed and/or spoke of the Cattle-Killing Movement.
Brownlee, Charles Pacalt. Reminiscences of Kafir Life and History and Other Papers by the Late Hon. Charles Brownlee, Gaika Commissioner. Lovedale: Lovedale Mission Press, 1916. Ngqika Commissioner to Sandile during the time of the Cattle-Killing, Charles Brownlee witnessed the Cattle-Killing first-hand. His letters formed an important corpus of the colonial government's understanding and response to the Cattle-Killing. Brownlee was the son of missionary John Brownlee near King William's Town, and he spoke fluent isiXhosa and was respected by the Ngqika. Brownlee's letters and other writings, including a contribution by his wife, were collected for this volume.
Edwards, John. Reminiscences of the Early Life and Missionary Labours of the Rev. John Edwards, Fifty Years a Wesleyan Missionary in South Africa. Graaff-Reinet: John Edwards Memorial Committee, 1988. ISBN 0620123346. Kay, Stephen. Travels and Researches in Caffraria: Describing the Character, Customs, and Moral Condition of the Tribes Inhabiting that Portion of Southern Africa. London: John Mason, 1833. Lichtenstein, Henry. Travels in Southern Africa in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1930. Maclean, Colonel, ed. A Compendium of Kafir Laws & Customs, Including Genealogical Tables of Kafir Chiefs and Various Tribal Census Returns. Grahamstown: J. Slater, 1906. Moodie, J.W.D. Ten Years in South Africa: Including a Particular Description of the Wild Sports of that Country. London: Richard Bentley, 1835. Nicholls, Brenda M. and Nancy C.J. Charton The Diary of Robert John Mullins (1833-1913). Grahamstown: Department of History, Rhodes University, 1998. Simons, P.B. John Blades Currey, 1850-1900: Fifty Years in the Cape Colony. Johannesburg: Brenthurst Press, 1986. Smith, G.C. The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith. London: John Murray, 1901. Williams, Donovan, ed. The Journal and Selected Writings of the Reverend Tiyo Soga. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1983. Secondary Books Bailey, Brett. The Plays of Miracle & Wonder: Bewitching Visions and Primal High-Jinx from the South African Stage. Cape Town: Double Storey Books, 2003. Barkun, Michael. Disaster and the Millennium. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. Bergh, Johan and J.C. Visagie The Eastern Cape Frontier Zone, 1660-1980: A Cartographic Guide for Historical Research. Durban: Butterworth Publishers, 1985. Bradford, Helen. Not a Nongqawuse Story: An anti-heroine in historical perspective. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2006. ISBN 0-7969-2174-1. Burton, Alfred W. Sparks from the Border Anvil. King William's Town: Provincial Publishing Company, 1950. Chalmers, John A. Tiyo Soga: A Page of South African Mission Work. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1877. Chalmers's biography of Soga draws upon his letters in part, and Soga's writings after his return to South Africa in 1857 comment significantly upon the effects of the Cattle-Killing Movement.
Cory, George. The Rise of South Africa: A History of the Origin of South African Colonisation and of its Development towards the East from the Earliest Times to 1857. Cape Town: Archives of the Union of South Africa [1910-1930], 1940. Crais, Clifton. White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Crampton, Hazel. The Sunburnt Queen: A True Story. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2004. ISBN 1919931929. De Kiewiet, C.W. A History of South Africa: Social & Economic. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1941. Eve, Jeanette. A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape: Places and the Voices of Writers. Cape Town: Double Storey, 2003. Halisi, C.R.D. Black Political Thought in the Making of South African Democracy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Jaffe, Hosea (Mnguni). Three Hundred Years. Cape Town: s.n., 1952. Jolobe, J.J.R. Ilitha. Johannesburg: A.P., 1959. Kropf, Albert. A Kafir-English Dictionary. South Africa: Lovedale Mission Press, 1915. Macmillan, W.M. Bantu, Boer, and Briton: The Making of the South African Native Problem. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1963), 1929. Majeke, Nosipho (Dora Taylor). The Role of the Missionaries in Conquest. Johannesburg: Society of Young Africa, 1952. Meintjes, Johannes. Sandile: The Fall of the Xhosa Nation. Cape Town: T.V. Bulpin, 1971. Metrowich, F.C. Chapter 34: The Day a Nation Died. Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1968. Mills, Wallace. Millennial Christianity, British Imperialism, and African Nationalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Milton, John. The Edges of War: A History of Frontier Wars (1702-1878). Cape Town: Juta, 1983. Molema, S.M. The Bantu, Past and Present: An Ethnographical and Historical Study of the Native Races of South Africa. Edinburgh: W. Green & Son, Limited, 1920. Mqhayi, S.E.K. Ityala lamaWele. Lovedale: Lovedale Press, n.d.. Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo. Africa is My Witness. Johannesburg: Blue Crane Books, 1966. In , Mutwa wrote that he waited thirty years to unveil the truth about the Cattle-Killing, "no matter how few believe it." He wrote the "Xhosa fell victims not to their own superstition, but to a vile and grisly practical joke, born in the ingenious minds of intelligent men." The movement was, he said, "one of the most cold-blooded murders in any age." Mutwa unsheathed the sharpest articulation of the Grey's Plot thesis, interspersed by a creative retelling of the events and two Mpondomise songs about Nongqawuse.
Peires, Jeff. The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989. ISBN 0869753819. Roux, Edward. Time Longer Than Rope: A History of the Black Man's Struggle for Freedom in South Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press [1948], 1964. Rubusana, W.B. Zemk'iinkomo Magwalandini. London: Butler and Tanner, 1906. Soga, John H. The Ama-Xosa: Life and Customs. Lovedale: Lovedale Press, 1932. Soga, T.B. Intlalo ka Xhosa. Lovedale: Lovedale Press, 1936. Soga, John H. The South-Eastern Bantu. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1930. Switzer, Les. Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1993. Theal, George McCall. A Compendium of South African History and Geography. Cape Town: , 1874. Theal, George McCall. History of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik (1964), 1888. Weldon, Gail. George Grey and the Xhosa: Fact and Opinion. Pietermaritzburg: Heinemann-Centaur, 1993. ISBN 1874925291. Wenzel, Jennifer. Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anti-colonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Wilson, Monica and Leonard Tompson, eds. The Oxford History of South Africa, Volume 1: South Africa to 1870. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. Worden, Nigel. The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Segregation and Apartheid. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994.
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