Fiona Vernal
University of Connecticut
5 Papers
25 Citations
Fiona Vernal is an academic researcher from University of Connecticut. The author has contributed to research in topics: Evangelism & Legal pluralism. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
‘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
TL;DR: In 1815, a contentious case came before the Court of Justice in the Cape Colony as mentioned in this paper, where Steyntje Van de Kaap, a creole slave, claimed manumission for herself and four children based on her status as a concubine, and the case became enmeshed in the nineteenth-century struggle between slaveholders, abolitionists and colonial administrators at the Cape, and in Great Britain.
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‘A Truly Christian Village’: The Farmerfield Mission as a Novel Turn in Methodist Evangelical Strategies, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1838–1883
TL;DR: In the early 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 as discussed by the authors.
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Discourse Networks in South African Slave Society
TL;DR: This article explored 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 and found that slaves forged information networks and used them as a "grapevine" for diffusing useful information and to create autonomy for themselves and their families beyond the institution of slavery.
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Discourses of Land Use, Land Access and Land Rights at Farmerfield and Loeriesfontein in Nineteenth-century South Africa
Fiona Vernal
- 01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: The controversy over land use, land access and land tenure that engulfed two farms in the mid-to-late nineteenth century in South Africa: Farmerfield, an ethnically heterogeneous Methodist mission farm in the Albany district of the Eastern Cape; and Loeriesfontein, an independent farm occupied by 'Coloureds' (‘Bastaards') near Calvinia in the Northern Cape.
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The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
TL;DR: The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa by Richard Elphick as mentioned in this paper explores the relationship between Afrikaner nationalism, Calvinism, neo-Calvinism, the missiology of the Dutch Reformed Church, and apartheid ideology.