Forced military service paired with rights curtailment bred resentment and revolt
Evidence
Khoi and increasingly Xhosa raiding both within and across the blurred frontier boundaries, by contrast, was cutting into the capability of the Company in Kaapstadt to meet its meat quotas and claims to protect burghers. Khoikhoi farm labor was especially ill-treated, involving beatings, withholding of pay, and refusal to release the worker and his family no matter how long or loyally they had served. Basters and Khoikhoi were pressed into commando service to stave off these raids, at the same time as their rights were being curtailed. The result, inevitably, was rising resentment and less than half-hearted effort on the part of Khoi and Baster commando members. Successive rebellious resistances ensued. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1374
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Shared sacrifice in military service built solidarity while unequal service bred cynicism — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 939; Legal-but-unacceptable conversion pressure can trigger rebellion by delegitimizing a regime; Rival rational traditions can destroy each other when joined to military power — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 474 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Shared sacrifice in military service built solidarity while unequal service bred cynicism
#expands(0.75) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 939 - Rival rational traditions can destroy each other when joined to military power
#expands(0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 474 - Legal-but-unacceptable conversion pressure can trigger rebellion by delegitimizing a regime
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