11 The Caledon River Valley and the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821–33

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. 1 History and Oral Traditions in Southeastern Africa 1
6. 2 Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of Southern African History 26
7. 3 Shipwreck Survivor Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 54
8. 4 Founding Families and Chiefdoms East of the Drakensberg 89
9. 5 Maputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before 1740 117
10. 6 Maputo Bay, 1740–1820 135
11. 7 Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740–1815 154
12. 8 Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815–21 185
13. 9 Military Campaigns, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration 207
14. 10 Ancestors, Descent Lines, and Chiefdoms West of the Drakensberg before 1820 237
15. 11 The Caledon River Valley and the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821–33 267
16. 12 The Expansion of the European Presence at Maputo Bay, 1821–33 294
17. 13 Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of Colonization 313
18. Appendix A: AmaSwazi King Lists 327
19. Appendix B: Chronology of Conflicts, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in the Era of Shaka 333
20. Appendix C: Interviewees from the James Stuart Collection of Oral Traditions 339
21. Notes 347
22. Bibliography 411
23. Index 425