in the Cape Colony: A Historiographical
Review," Social Dynamics 9: 1 (June
1983): 30-49;
Pietervan Duin and Robert Ross, The Economy of the Cape Colony
in the Eighteenth Century (Leiden, 1987).
27. Van Duin and Ross, Economy, 114-23.
28. Scholars have debated the question of the extent to which the trekboers
were involved in the market economy. See Martin Legassick, "The Frontier Tradi-
tion in Pre-Industrial
South Africa," in Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial
South Africa, ed. Shula Marks and Anthony Atmore (London, 1980), 44-79;
Guelke, "Freehold Farmers," 58-71;
Ross, "First Two Centuries," 40-42.
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