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

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.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Historical Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Holdridge, Christopher Arthur

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Penn, Nigel

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11558

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11558