F Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 36632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3035-0207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Making ‘Tribal Histories’
Paul Kruger
Professor Bergh, who is highly regarded for his publications based on an extensive archival record of Transvaal history, has achieved a milestone in generating in one volume his own bound repositor
Reconnecting Tswana Archaeological Sites with their Descendants
Archaeologists in southern Africa who wish to provide public access to visible sites face the challenge of widespread farm privatization and the associated displacement of African communities. Most of today’s six million Tswana speakers cannot access the private farms where many stonewall settlements built by their ancestors are located. Recent research in southern Botswana identified a site on communal land in close proximity to people who can i…
To Die For
Standard interpretations of inherited leadership (bogosi) among the varied Tswana-speaking peoples, undertaken in the mid colonial era by Isaac Schapera, and followed by more recent scholars, have been preoccupied with the constitutional restrictions and obligations of this office and its rules of succession. This framework has served also as a generic characterisation of pre-colonial bogosi, suggesting continuity over time. An examination of the…
Our land, our life, our future
The rise of a raiding state
Though long acknowledged for their military prowess under Makaba II (ruled c. 1780-1824), the emergence of the Ngwaketse among the southern Tswana in the pre-difaqane era has not been sufficiently accounted for, and its significance to regional developments has gone unrecognised and unexplained. Argued here is that the Ngwaketse embarked on territorial domination of southern Botswana during the reign of Moleta (ruled c. 1750 – c. 1780), when they…
Tswana Hunting
Kalahari and Transvaal Tswana practised a mixed economy of herding, agriculture, and hunting for meat (and for skins). While faunal remains reflect higher percentage of domestic stock than of wild animals, such proportions alone do not reflect hunting's importance. Hunters probably slaughtered animals in the veld and dried the meat in strips for transport home with the skins. Moreover, hunting-related vocabulary and numerous references to wildlif…
Opolot Okia. Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya
Opolot Okia documents the persistence of coerced, unpaid communal labor in Kenya Colony in the 1920s even though official policies prohibited forced labor on European farms and public projects. In defense, the fiction was maintained that communal labor was rooted in African tradition and acceptable to colonial subjects. Okia uses the papers of Archdeacon Walter E. Owen, who took special interest in labor abuses, to show that communal labor was ne…
Mephato
After their modern polities (merafhe) took shape in the eighteenth century, Tswana leaders used male age-sets (mephato, sing. mophato) to play an increasingly active role in public affairs. Led by senior members of the political hierarchy, mephato were committed for life to carry out military and other duties. In c.1750 the Makabe Tlokwa and Kgafela Kgatla of the Pilanesberg area shared initiation and formed joint mephato, an alliance that proved…
Family Memory and Historical Fiction
This article presents an historical appraisal of Botlhale Tema's historical novel about her extended family set in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western Transvaal. Tema's forbearers were seized as children following commando attacks and raised as inboekelinge (registerees, a euphemism for slaves) in the households of Boer farmers in the Rustenburg district. Tema's novel, which is based on family interviews and some archival research, is a…
Creating maps as historical evidence
Die aanlyn Landbougeografiese Inligtingsstelsel Sisteem – (bekend as AGIS) – sowel as die omvattende Atlas databasis, tesame met mondelinge oorlewering/tradisies en topokadastrale kaarte is in hierdie artikel gebruik om terrein- en grondkaarte te ontwikkel ten opsigte van sowat agt van die vyftien 18e eeuse nedersettings in die Rustenburg-Pilanesberg gebied. Hierdie kaarte demonstreer die belangrikheid van grond- en waterbronne in die keuse van w…
Female inboekelinge in the South African Republic, 1850–1880
An outline is provided of slavery as experienced by African girl captives in the South African Republic (who after being seized along with boys, were resistered as apprentices, on inbockelinge in Dutch). Based on brief published autobiographies and scattered archival and newspaper references, the article examines the nature of capture, transport and sale of female children, their acculturation as youngsters and response as adults to their domesti…
To Make Them Serve
Cattleholders, Evangelists and Socioeconomic Transformation among the BaKgatla of Rustenburg District, 1863–1898
The Missionary as Land Broker
Slavery in South Africa
Historiography of South African slavery, Elizabeth A. Eldredge and Fred Morton the Cape slave trade, Robert Shell slavery and enslavement on the Cape frontier, Clifton Crais and Susan Newton-King the fortunate slave - slaves as labour tenants in the 19th century Cape, John Mason patterns of slave-raiding across the shifting frontier, E.A. Eldredge slavery and slave-trading in Natal, Carolyn Hamilton and John Wright Black Ivory - slavery and the i…
Slavery in South Africa
Land, Cattle and Ethnicity
Children of Ham
Slave-Raiding and Slavery in the Western Transvaal after the Sand River Convention
Following the 1852 Sand River Convention, at which Boer leaders agreed to prohibit slavery and slave trading north of the Vaal River, slave-raiding on the peoples of the Transvaal border continued, as did the institution of slavery (in the form of registered labor) at least up to 1870. Initiative in raiding was taken by the Western Transvaal Boers, who operated independently of the Swazi-Boer slave trade in the Eastern Transvaal of the 1860s docu…
Children of Ham
Slavery and African Life
Children of Ham
Children of Ham
Land Filled with Flies
image of a pristine isolation has been almost as common in research on foragers as in the popular media. Land filled with Flies is a sustanined argument against such views. Wilmsen marshals an enormous quantity of historical, archival, archeological, ethnographic, and survey data on the Kalahari Zhu to show how far from the reality these images are, how they have their own historical provenance, how they have been analytically distorting, and how…
The Royal Timber in Late Colonial Bahia
Mephato
After their modern polities (merafhe) took shape in the eighteenth century, Tswana leaders used male age-sets (mephato, sing. mophato) to play an increasingly active role in public affairs. Led by senior members of the political hierarchy, mephato were committed for life to carry out military and other duties. In c.1750 the Makabe Tlokwa and Kgafela Kgatla of the Pilanesberg area shared initiation and formed joint mephato, an alliance that proved…
The Birth of Botswana
Tswana Hunting
Kalahari and Transvaal Tswana practised a mixed economy of herding, agriculture, and hunting for meat (and for skins). While faunal remains reflect higher percentage of domestic stock than of wild animals, such proportions alone do not reflect hunting's importance. Hunters probably slaughtered animals in the veld and dried the meat in strips for transport home with the skins. Moreover, hunting-related vocabulary and numerous references to wildlif…
The Missionary as Land Broker
Children of Ham
Children of Ham
Female inboekelinge in the South African Republic, 1850–1880
An outline is provided of slavery as experienced by African girl captives in the South African Republic (who after being seized along with boys, were resistered as apprentices, on inbockelinge in Dutch). Based on brief published autobiographies and scattered archival and newspaper references, the article examines the nature of capture, transport and sale of female children, their acculturation as youngsters and response as adults to their domesti…
Land, Cattle and Ethnicity
The Military and Society in Bahia, 1800-1821
In recent years, the military institutions of societies both past and present have become an increasingly active field of study and research. Brazil, where the professional military play so commanding a role in the national life today, has received a substantial share of attention. But studies on the Brazilian, military have hitherto been principally concerned with the period since the fall of the Empire (1889). This is understandable
To Die For
Standard interpretations of inherited leadership (bogosi) among the varied Tswana-speaking peoples, undertaken in the mid colonial era by Isaac Schapera, and followed by more recent scholars, have been preoccupied with the constitutional restrictions and obligations of this office and its rules of succession. This framework has served also as a generic characterisation of pre-colonial bogosi, suggesting continuity over time. An examination of the…
Family Memory and Historical Fiction
This article presents an historical appraisal of Botlhale Tema's historical novel about her extended family set in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western Transvaal. Tema's forbearers were seized as children following commando attacks and raised as inboekelinge (registerees, a euphemism for slaves) in the households of Boer farmers in the Rustenburg district. Tema's novel, which is based on family interviews and some archival research, is a…
Cattleholders, Evangelists and Socioeconomic Transformation among the BaKgatla of Rustenburg District, 1863–1898
Slave-Raiding and Slavery in the Western Transvaal after the Sand River Convention
Following the 1852 Sand River Convention, at which Boer leaders agreed to prohibit slavery and slave trading north of the Vaal River, slave-raiding on the peoples of the Transvaal border continued, as did the institution of slavery (in the form of registered labor) at least up to 1870. Initiative in raiding was taken by the Western Transvaal Boers, who operated independently of the Swazi-Boer slave trade in the Eastern Transvaal of the 1860s docu…
Les Rothschild
The Military and Society in Bahia, 1800-1821
In recent years, the military institutions of societies both past and present have become an increasingly active field of study and research. Brazil, where the professional military play so commanding a role in the national life today, has received a substantial share of attention. But studies on the Brazilian, military have hitherto been principally concerned with the period since the fall of the Empire (1889). This is understandable
The Royal Timber in Late Colonial Bahia
Brazil's Emergence on the World Stage
The Birth of Botswana
The Birth of Botswana
Children of Ham
Land Filled with Flies
image of a pristine isolation has been almost as common in research on foragers as in the popular media. Land filled with Flies is a sustanined argument against such views. Wilmsen marshals an enormous quantity of historical, archival, archeological, ethnographic, and survey data on the Kalahari Zhu to show how far from the reality these images are, how they have their own historical provenance, how they have been analytically distorting, and how…
Children of Ham
Slave-Raiding and Slavery in the Western Transvaal after the Sand River Convention
Following the 1852 Sand River Convention, at which Boer leaders agreed to prohibit slavery and slave trading north of the Vaal River, slave-raiding on the peoples of the Transvaal border continued, as did the institution of slavery (in the form of registered labor) at least up to 1870. Initiative in raiding was taken by the Western Transvaal Boers, who operated independently of the Swazi-Boer slave trade in the Eastern Transvaal of the 1860s docu…
Children of Ham
Slavery and African Life
Children of Ham
Land, Cattle and Ethnicity
Slavery in South Africa
The Missionary as Land Broker
Slavery in South Africa
Historiography of South African slavery, Elizabeth A. Eldredge and Fred Morton the Cape slave trade, Robert Shell slavery and enslavement on the Cape frontier, Clifton Crais and Susan Newton-King the fortunate slave - slaves as labour tenants in the 19th century Cape, John Mason patterns of slave-raiding across the shifting frontier, E.A. Eldredge slavery and slave-trading in Natal, Carolyn Hamilton and John Wright Black Ivory - slavery and the i…
Cattleholders, Evangelists and Socioeconomic Transformation among the BaKgatla of Rustenburg District, 1863–1898
To Make Them Serve
Female inboekelinge in the South African Republic, 1850–1880
An outline is provided of slavery as experienced by African girl captives in the South African Republic (who after being seized along with boys, were resistered as apprentices, on inbockelinge in Dutch). Based on brief published autobiographies and scattered archival and newspaper references, the article examines the nature of capture, transport and sale of female children, their acculturation as youngsters and response as adults to their domesti…
Creating maps as historical evidence
Die aanlyn Landbougeografiese Inligtingsstelsel Sisteem – (bekend as AGIS) – sowel as die omvattende Atlas databasis, tesame met mondelinge oorlewering/tradisies en topokadastrale kaarte is in hierdie artikel gebruik om terrein- en grondkaarte te ontwikkel ten opsigte van sowat agt van die vyftien 18e eeuse nedersettings in die Rustenburg-Pilanesberg gebied. Hierdie kaarte demonstreer die belangrikheid van grond- en waterbronne in die keuse van w…
Family Memory and Historical Fiction
This article presents an historical appraisal of Botlhale Tema's historical novel about her extended family set in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western Transvaal. Tema's forbearers were seized as children following commando attacks and raised as inboekelinge (registerees, a euphemism for slaves) in the households of Boer farmers in the Rustenburg district. Tema's novel, which is based on family interviews and some archival research, is a…
Mephato
After their modern polities (merafhe) took shape in the eighteenth century, Tswana leaders used male age-sets (mephato, sing. mophato) to play an increasingly active role in public affairs. Led by senior members of the political hierarchy, mephato were committed for life to carry out military and other duties. In c.1750 the Makabe Tlokwa and Kgafela Kgatla of the Pilanesberg area shared initiation and formed joint mephato, an alliance that proved…
Opolot Okia. Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya
Opolot Okia documents the persistence of coerced, unpaid communal labor in Kenya Colony in the 1920s even though official policies prohibited forced labor on European farms and public projects. In defense, the fiction was maintained that communal labor was rooted in African tradition and acceptable to colonial subjects. Okia uses the papers of Archdeacon Walter E. Owen, who took special interest in labor abuses, to show that communal labor was ne…
The rise of a raiding state
Though long acknowledged for their military prowess under Makaba II (ruled c. 1780-1824), the emergence of the Ngwaketse among the southern Tswana in the pre-difaqane era has not been sufficiently accounted for, and its significance to regional developments has gone unrecognised and unexplained. Argued here is that the Ngwaketse embarked on territorial domination of southern Botswana during the reign of Moleta (ruled c. 1750 – c. 1780), when they…
History (23 works) · Geography (19 works) · African history and culture studies (17 works) · Archaeology (17 works) · History (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Ancient history (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · South African History and Culture (12 works) · Law (9 works)