Benedict Carton
Biographic Data
| ID | 110777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benedict Carton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benedict |
| FAMILY NAME | Carton |
| SIGNATURE | CARTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: The “palpability” of another legacy
From the Enslaved Children of George Mason to Black Lives Next Door: Rediscovering the namesake of Virginia’s largest university in the “plantation” suburbs of Washington, D.C
From Mississippi and Memphis to Mozambique: American emancipation and the evangelical struggles of Benjamin and Henrietta Ousley and Nancy Jones, “ex-slave” missionaries in “Zulu East Africa,” 1850s–1…
Soon after Emancipation a trio of formerly enslaved preachers relocated to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Supported by an American mission organization, their outpost named Kambini became a site of conversion and literacy. A nearby white colleague, Rev. William Wilcox, had another plan. He linked proselytization to the operation of a cashew plantation that used local labor. Having enduring plantation bondage in Mississippi, two of the three…
My Husband is No Husband to Me: Divorce, Marriage and Gender Struggles in African Communities of Colonial Natal, 1869-1910
There is no published historical study devoted to an examination of divorce in Zulu chiefdoms and homesteads living under customary law. Using scholarship that analyses gender struggles in southern Africa, this article evaluates four decades of spousal conflict following the passage of the Natal Native Marriage Law 1 of 1869. The legislation made colonial authority an arbiter of nuptial negotiations and allowed couples to revoke their vows in cou…
Colonialism and African Childhood
African children shaped social, cultural, and productive dynamics during European colonial rule. Often marginal to those in power, children have been neglected by historians until recently, in part because few sources reveal experiences of childhood socialization, labor, education, and play. What constituted a child could be indicated by membership in an age set or by ritual initiation. In the nineteenth century, children become visible in court …
Albert Luthuli's Private Struggle: How an Icon of Peace Came to Accept Sabotage in South Africa
In December 1961, Albert Luthuli, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), arrived in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists in Norway noted how apartheid crackdowns failed to poison the new laureate's ‘courteous’ commitment to nonviolence. The press never reported Luthuli's acceptance that saboteurs in an armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK or Spear of the Nation), would now fight for freedom. Analyzing recently available evidence…
Forgetting Apartheid: History, Culture and the Body of a Nun - Corrigendum
Forgetting Apartheid: History, Culture and the Body of a Nun
In 1952, the African National Congress (ANC) initiated its Defiance Campaign, opposing apartheid laws through organized civil disobedience and African nationalism. On Sunday 9 November, the city of East London became a site of political mobilization when 1,500 Xhosa-speaking ANC sympathizers peacefully protested in Bantu Square, the hub of a township named Duncan Village. Police arrived and fired on the crowd, igniting 'spontaneous riots'. An Afr…
Last Zulu Warrior Standing’: Cultural Legacies of Racial Stereotyping and Embodied Ethno-Branding in South Africa
This paper explores the legacies of white South African cricketer Lance ‘Zulu’ Klusener. His childhood immersion in ‘Shakan culture’ on a Natal farm was said to imbue him with warrior prowess on the field. In Klusener's newly democratic country even township veterans of the People's War against apartheid, who associated cricket with racial tyranny, followed his World Cup exploits. So too did his rural Zulu fans in KwaZulu–Natal chiefdoms. Klusene…
The Wages of Migrancy: Homestead Dynamics, Income Earning, and Colonial Law in Zululand, South Africa
This article examines a court case in colonial South Africa at the turn of the 20th century. The plaintiff, Ugudhla, was a newly-wed residing in his paternal homestead. He wrangled with the defendant, his polygamous father, chief Matshana kaMondisa, over lineage property and marital prospects. Ugudhla, a migrant labourer from Nkandla, Zululand, felt entitled to decide family matters because his wages from the Transvaal mines had helped the househ…
Zulu Masculinities, Warrior Culture and Stick Fighting: Reassessing Male Violence and Virtue in South Africa
Zulu soldiers are renowned for decimating a British army at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879. This military victory not only entrenched a legacy of merciless conquest long attributed to King Shaka, but also sensationalised the idea that Zulu men are natural-born killers. We reassess this stereotype by scrutinising the 'Shakan' version of martial culture and its reputed links to the formative encounters of Zulu men. One such experience involved bo…
From Hampton “[I]nto the Heart of Africa”: How Faith in God and Folklore Turned Congo Missionary William Sheppard into a Pioneering Ethnologist
The African-American missionary, William Henry Sheppard Jr. (1865-1927), lived in the Kuba kingdom of central Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. A student of Virginia's Hampton (Normal) Institute in the early 1880s, Sheppard left the United States a decade later to preach in the Congo Free State, a colonial territory claimed by Belgian monarch Leopold II. This king's army, the Force Publique, and its local auxiliaries spawned suffering …
Fount of Deep Culture: Legacies of the James Stuart Archive in South African Historiography
The 2001 launch of the fifth volume of the James Stuart Archive reinforces this publication's reputation as a mother lode of primary evidence. The Archive's existence is largely due to the efforts of two editors, Colin De B. Webb and John Wright, who transformed a tangle of notes into lucid text. They deciphered the interviews that Natal colonist James Stuart conducted with a range of informants, many of them elderly isiZulu-speaking men. Transcr…
The Forgotten Compass of Death: Apocalypse Then and Now in the Social History of South Africa
Journal Article The Forgotten Compass of Death: Apocalypse Then and Now in the Social History of South Africa Get access Benedict Carton Benedict Carton Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Fall 2003, Pages 199–218, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0128 Published: 01 October 2003
Mandela's Children: Growing Up in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Restless Identities: Signatures of Nationalism, Zulu Ethnicity and History in the Lives of Petros Lamula (c. 1881-1948) and Lymon Maling (1889-c.1936)
Blood from Your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa
Zulu Masculinities, Warrior Culture and Stick Fighting: Reassessing Male Violence and Virtue in South Africa
Zulu soldiers are renowned for decimating a British army at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879. This military victory not only entrenched a legacy of merciless conquest long attributed to King Shaka, but also sensationalised the idea that Zulu men are natural-born killers. We reassess this stereotype by scrutinising the 'Shakan' version of martial culture and its reputed links to the formative encounters of Zulu men. One such experience involved bo…
Blood from Your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa
Forgetting Apartheid: History, Culture and the Body of a Nun
In 1952, the African National Congress (ANC) initiated its Defiance Campaign, opposing apartheid laws through organized civil disobedience and African nationalism. On Sunday 9 November, the city of East London became a site of political mobilization when 1,500 Xhosa-speaking ANC sympathizers peacefully protested in Bantu Square, the hub of a township named Duncan Village. Police arrived and fired on the crowd, igniting 'spontaneous riots'. An Afr…
Last Zulu Warrior Standing’: Cultural Legacies of Racial Stereotyping and Embodied Ethno-Branding in South Africa
This paper explores the legacies of white South African cricketer Lance ‘Zulu’ Klusener. His childhood immersion in ‘Shakan culture’ on a Natal farm was said to imbue him with warrior prowess on the field. In Klusener's newly democratic country even township veterans of the People's War against apartheid, who associated cricket with racial tyranny, followed his World Cup exploits. So too did his rural Zulu fans in KwaZulu–Natal chiefdoms. Klusene…
My Husband is No Husband to Me: Divorce, Marriage and Gender Struggles in African Communities of Colonial Natal, 1869-1910
There is no published historical study devoted to an examination of divorce in Zulu chiefdoms and homesteads living under customary law. Using scholarship that analyses gender struggles in southern Africa, this article evaluates four decades of spousal conflict following the passage of the Natal Native Marriage Law 1 of 1869. The legislation made colonial authority an arbiter of nuptial negotiations and allowed couples to revoke their vows in cou…
Albert Luthuli's Private Struggle: How an Icon of Peace Came to Accept Sabotage in South Africa
In December 1961, Albert Luthuli, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), arrived in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists in Norway noted how apartheid crackdowns failed to poison the new laureate's ‘courteous’ commitment to nonviolence. The press never reported Luthuli's acceptance that saboteurs in an armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK or Spear of the Nation), would now fight for freedom. Analyzing recently available evidence…
The Forgotten Compass of Death: Apocalypse Then and Now in the Social History of South Africa
Journal Article The Forgotten Compass of Death: Apocalypse Then and Now in the Social History of South Africa Get access Benedict Carton Benedict Carton Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Fall 2003, Pages 199–218, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0128 Published: 01 October 2003
Restless Identities: Signatures of Nationalism, Zulu Ethnicity and History in the Lives of Petros Lamula (c. 1881-1948) and Lymon Maling (1889-c.1936)
The Wages of Migrancy: Homestead Dynamics, Income Earning, and Colonial Law in Zululand, South Africa
This article examines a court case in colonial South Africa at the turn of the 20th century. The plaintiff, Ugudhla, was a newly-wed residing in his paternal homestead. He wrangled with the defendant, his polygamous father, chief Matshana kaMondisa, over lineage property and marital prospects. Ugudhla, a migrant labourer from Nkandla, Zululand, felt entitled to decide family matters because his wages from the Transvaal mines had helped the househ…
Restless Identities: Signatures of Nationalism, Zulu Ethnicity and History in the Lives of Petros Lamula (c. 1881-1948) and Lymon Maling (1889-c.1936)
Blood from Your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa
Mandela's Children: Growing Up in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Fount of Deep Culture: Legacies of the James Stuart Archive in South African Historiography
The 2001 launch of the fifth volume of the James Stuart Archive reinforces this publication's reputation as a mother lode of primary evidence. The Archive's existence is largely due to the efforts of two editors, Colin De B. Webb and John Wright, who transformed a tangle of notes into lucid text. They deciphered the interviews that Natal colonist James Stuart conducted with a range of informants, many of them elderly isiZulu-speaking men. Transcr…
The Forgotten Compass of Death: Apocalypse Then and Now in the Social History of South Africa
Journal Article The Forgotten Compass of Death: Apocalypse Then and Now in the Social History of South Africa Get access Benedict Carton Benedict Carton Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Fall 2003, Pages 199–218, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0128 Published: 01 October 2003
From Hampton “[I]nto the Heart of Africa”: How Faith in God and Folklore Turned Congo Missionary William Sheppard into a Pioneering Ethnologist
The African-American missionary, William Henry Sheppard Jr. (1865-1927), lived in the Kuba kingdom of central Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. A student of Virginia's Hampton (Normal) Institute in the early 1880s, Sheppard left the United States a decade later to preach in the Congo Free State, a colonial territory claimed by Belgian monarch Leopold II. This king's army, the Force Publique, and its local auxiliaries spawned suffering …
Zulu Masculinities, Warrior Culture and Stick Fighting: Reassessing Male Violence and Virtue in South Africa
Zulu soldiers are renowned for decimating a British army at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879. This military victory not only entrenched a legacy of merciless conquest long attributed to King Shaka, but also sensationalised the idea that Zulu men are natural-born killers. We reassess this stereotype by scrutinising the 'Shakan' version of martial culture and its reputed links to the formative encounters of Zulu men. One such experience involved bo…
The Wages of Migrancy: Homestead Dynamics, Income Earning, and Colonial Law in Zululand, South Africa
This article examines a court case in colonial South Africa at the turn of the 20th century. The plaintiff, Ugudhla, was a newly-wed residing in his paternal homestead. He wrangled with the defendant, his polygamous father, chief Matshana kaMondisa, over lineage property and marital prospects. Ugudhla, a migrant labourer from Nkandla, Zululand, felt entitled to decide family matters because his wages from the Transvaal mines had helped the househ…
Last Zulu Warrior Standing’: Cultural Legacies of Racial Stereotyping and Embodied Ethno-Branding in South Africa
This paper explores the legacies of white South African cricketer Lance ‘Zulu’ Klusener. His childhood immersion in ‘Shakan culture’ on a Natal farm was said to imbue him with warrior prowess on the field. In Klusener's newly democratic country even township veterans of the People's War against apartheid, who associated cricket with racial tyranny, followed his World Cup exploits. So too did his rural Zulu fans in KwaZulu–Natal chiefdoms. Klusene…
Forgetting Apartheid: History, Culture and the Body of a Nun - Corrigendum
Forgetting Apartheid: History, Culture and the Body of a Nun
In 1952, the African National Congress (ANC) initiated its Defiance Campaign, opposing apartheid laws through organized civil disobedience and African nationalism. On Sunday 9 November, the city of East London became a site of political mobilization when 1,500 Xhosa-speaking ANC sympathizers peacefully protested in Bantu Square, the hub of a township named Duncan Village. Police arrived and fired on the crowd, igniting 'spontaneous riots'. An Afr…
Colonialism and African Childhood
African children shaped social, cultural, and productive dynamics during European colonial rule. Often marginal to those in power, children have been neglected by historians until recently, in part because few sources reveal experiences of childhood socialization, labor, education, and play. What constituted a child could be indicated by membership in an age set or by ritual initiation. In the nineteenth century, children become visible in court …
Albert Luthuli's Private Struggle: How an Icon of Peace Came to Accept Sabotage in South Africa
In December 1961, Albert Luthuli, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), arrived in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Journalists in Norway noted how apartheid crackdowns failed to poison the new laureate's ‘courteous’ commitment to nonviolence. The press never reported Luthuli's acceptance that saboteurs in an armed wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK or Spear of the Nation), would now fight for freedom. Analyzing recently available evidence…
My Husband is No Husband to Me: Divorce, Marriage and Gender Struggles in African Communities of Colonial Natal, 1869-1910
There is no published historical study devoted to an examination of divorce in Zulu chiefdoms and homesteads living under customary law. Using scholarship that analyses gender struggles in southern Africa, this article evaluates four decades of spousal conflict following the passage of the Natal Native Marriage Law 1 of 1869. The legislation made colonial authority an arbiter of nuptial negotiations and allowed couples to revoke their vows in cou…
From Mississippi and Memphis to Mozambique: American emancipation and the evangelical struggles of Benjamin and Henrietta Ousley and Nancy Jones, “ex-slave” missionaries in “Zulu East Africa,” 1850s–1…
Soon after Emancipation a trio of formerly enslaved preachers relocated to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Supported by an American mission organization, their outpost named Kambini became a site of conversion and literacy. A nearby white colleague, Rev. William Wilcox, had another plan. He linked proselytization to the operation of a cashew plantation that used local labor. Having enduring plantation bondage in Mississippi, two of the three…
Introduction: The “palpability” of another legacy
From the Enslaved Children of George Mason to Black Lives Next Door: Rediscovering the namesake of Virginia’s largest university in the “plantation” suburbs of Washington, D.C
History (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · South African History and Culture (10 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (6 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)