Belongings

Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725–c. 1830

Laura J. Mitchell

 

Fig. 9.2. Nineteenth-Century Farm, Clanwilliam

Substantial buildings, trees planted for shade and windbreaks, and cultivated fields (in the background) suggest this farm inherited the legacy of orthodoxy that settlers had established by the end of the eighteenth century in the Olifants River Valley.

Courtesy of the Western Cape Archives and Records Service.

CA: Ravenscroft 675, The Rest, Clanwilliam.