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Between 1776 and 1833 the plural, stratified slave-owning society of the Cape was exposed to the ideological revolution of the Northern Enlightenment, based on the non-dogmatic rationalism of the French philosophes, evangelical Christian humanitarianism, and new political orthodoxies derived from the rival democratic ideas of Locke and Rousseau. It had erupted on both sides of the Atlantic in various ways to free victims of religious persecution, serfs, slaves, prisoners, and the politically unrepresented.
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Bibliographical Notes
3.1 The eighteenth-century revolution and Cape Colonial ‘Calvinism’
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Davenport, T.R.H., Saunders, C. (2000). The Enlightenment and the Great Trek. In: South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287549_3
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