by Patric Tariq Mellet
Published by NB Publishers
Slavery is at the core of the glaring inequality which persists in South Africa to this day. Yet slavery is but a subscript in our national consciousness. As a ‘storyteller who asks new questions’, Patric Tariq Mellet sets out to rectify this. In the Truth about Cape Slavery, Mellet shows that modern South Africa - its economy and politics - is shaped by slavery in the same way that it has shaped the United States of America, and that it deserves the same scrutiny. Cape slavery was a crucial feature of maritime capitalism and became the cornerstone of the Cape’s agricultural economy.