Fiona Vernal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6178355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Vernal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Vernal |
| SIGNATURE | VERNAL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Farmerfield mission: A Christian community in South Africa, 1838-2008
This text explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.
“A Selected Class of Natives”
Chapter 4 explores the extent to which Farmerfield was imagined as, and became an economic enterprise where Africans engaged in peasant farming while providing labor to local white settler. In the early decades of the settlement, Farmerfield provided one example of the rise of a successful African peasantry that negotiated the limits of arable farming by engaging in a three part strategy of seasonal labor for whites, arable farming and pastoralis…
The Review of 1884
Chapter six explores the crisis of 1884 when the WMMS considered evicting the residents and dissolving the mission. Criticism of the mission was symptomatic of a general disillusionment with the anaemic pace of conversion, paltry membership rates compared to the overall population and displeasure with the growth of unorthodox, syncretic versions of Christianity. Missionaries took umbrage at African criticism of missionary paternalism and unorthod…
Genealogies
Chapter one places the Evangelical Revival in its European context especially the birth and significance of Methodism and the formation of missionary societies to spread the Gospel to Africa. Evangelicalism overlapped chronologically and ideologically with the growth in momentum of the anti-slavery movement in the 1790s. This chapter highlights how Sierra Leone emerged as early prototype of an African settlement that focused on agricultural indus…
Discourse Networks in South African Slave Society
How do slaves acquire information about their customary and legal rights and how does that knowledge impel them to action? This article explores the discourses that developed from the experiences of a diaspora of slaves taken from disparate parts of Asia and Africa as well as creole slaves born at the Cape. A range of factors from geographical origin, legal status, and race to colour, ethnicity, and religion produced a fragile hierarchy that slav…
A Truly Christian Village’: The Farmerfield Mission as a Novel Turn in Methodist Evangelical Strategies, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1838–1883
Between the 1820s and the 1830s, the superintendent of Wesleyan missions, William Shaw, and his colleagues created ‘a chain of stations’ that effectively established a Methodist sphere of influence in the Eastern Cape. Despite the romance associated with this era, pioneer evangelism yielded Africans who attended church without becoming bona fide Christians, and the small number of baptised, official church members paled in proportion to the actua…
No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women's Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815–1822
In 1815, a contentious case came before the Court of Justice in the Cape Colony. Steyntje Van de Kaap, a creole slave, claimed manumission for herself and four children based on her status as a concubine. Harkening back to the Dutch period at the Cape, her suit resurrected a little-known 1772 statute, which, upon the death of slave owners, granted freedom to their concubines and any children from such unions. So indicative was the case of sexual …
No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women's Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c. 1815–1822
This article refers to:‘No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women's Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815–1822
Discourse Networks in South African Slave Society
How do slaves acquire information about their customary and legal rights and how does that knowledge impel them to action? This article explores the discourses that developed from the experiences of a diaspora of slaves taken from disparate parts of Asia and Africa as well as creole slaves born at the Cape. A range of factors from geographical origin, legal status, and race to colour, ethnicity, and religion produced a fragile hierarchy that slav…
A Truly Christian Village’: The Farmerfield Mission as a Novel Turn in Methodist Evangelical Strategies, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1838–1883
Between the 1820s and the 1830s, the superintendent of Wesleyan missions, William Shaw, and his colleagues created ‘a chain of stations’ that effectively established a Methodist sphere of influence in the Eastern Cape. Despite the romance associated with this era, pioneer evangelism yielded Africans who attended church without becoming bona fide Christians, and the small number of baptised, official church members paled in proportion to the actua…
No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women's Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815–1822
In 1815, a contentious case came before the Court of Justice in the Cape Colony. Steyntje Van de Kaap, a creole slave, claimed manumission for herself and four children based on her status as a concubine. Harkening back to the Dutch period at the Cape, her suit resurrected a little-known 1772 statute, which, upon the death of slave owners, granted freedom to their concubines and any children from such unions. So indicative was the case of sexual …
No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women's Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815–1822
In 1815, a contentious case came before the Court of Justice in the Cape Colony. Steyntje Van de Kaap, a creole slave, claimed manumission for herself and four children based on her status as a concubine. Harkening back to the Dutch period at the Cape, her suit resurrected a little-known 1772 statute, which, upon the death of slave owners, granted freedom to their concubines and any children from such unions. So indicative was the case of sexual …
No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women's Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c. 1815–1822
This article refers to:‘No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women's Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815–1822
A Truly Christian Village’: The Farmerfield Mission as a Novel Turn in Methodist Evangelical Strategies, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1838–1883
Between the 1820s and the 1830s, the superintendent of Wesleyan missions, William Shaw, and his colleagues created ‘a chain of stations’ that effectively established a Methodist sphere of influence in the Eastern Cape. Despite the romance associated with this era, pioneer evangelism yielded Africans who attended church without becoming bona fide Christians, and the small number of baptised, official church members paled in proportion to the actua…
Discourse Networks in South African Slave Society
How do slaves acquire information about their customary and legal rights and how does that knowledge impel them to action? This article explores the discourses that developed from the experiences of a diaspora of slaves taken from disparate parts of Asia and Africa as well as creole slaves born at the Cape. A range of factors from geographical origin, legal status, and race to colour, ethnicity, and religion produced a fragile hierarchy that slav…
The Farmerfield mission: A Christian community in South Africa, 1838-2008
This text explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.
“A Selected Class of Natives”
Chapter 4 explores the extent to which Farmerfield was imagined as, and became an economic enterprise where Africans engaged in peasant farming while providing labor to local white settler. In the early decades of the settlement, Farmerfield provided one example of the rise of a successful African peasantry that negotiated the limits of arable farming by engaging in a three part strategy of seasonal labor for whites, arable farming and pastoralis…
The Review of 1884
Chapter six explores the crisis of 1884 when the WMMS considered evicting the residents and dissolving the mission. Criticism of the mission was symptomatic of a general disillusionment with the anaemic pace of conversion, paltry membership rates compared to the overall population and displeasure with the growth of unorthodox, syncretic versions of Christianity. Missionaries took umbrage at African criticism of missionary paternalism and unorthod…
Genealogies
Chapter one places the Evangelical Revival in its European context especially the birth and significance of Methodism and the formation of missionary societies to spread the Gospel to Africa. Evangelicalism overlapped chronologically and ideologically with the growth in momentum of the anti-slavery movement in the 1790s. This chapter highlights how Sierra Leone emerged as early prototype of an African settlement that focused on agricultural indus…
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