Philida

Based on real events, this is the story of a Cape slave who defies her masters. Philida walks to Stellenbosch to complain that her owner plans to sell her, although she has borne four children to his son Frans, who swore he would buy her free. Her daring is punished: in 1833 she and her children go under the hammer at Worcester, and when the British end slavery soon after, she remains bound to her new master for four more years.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

319 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa, 1830s

First published

2012 by Human & Rousseau

ISBN

9780798155212 (original)

9781846557040 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)