Building the Cape of Good Hope Panel

Fourie, Johan; Green, Erik

doi:10.1080/1081602x.2018.1509367

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“…We have access to these records because of the hard work of a team that has manually transcribed them for almost a decade (Fourie and Green, 2018). A unique feature of these records is the inclusion of both the husband and wife's names, which allows for the creation of an annual panel known as the Cape of Good Hope Panel, spanning over 140 years (Rijpma, Cilliers, and Fourie, 2020).…”

Section: A Census Of Agricultural Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Slave labor productivity and wine output: Stellenbosch, 1680–1828

Fourie,

Greyling

2023

J Wine Econ

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This paper examines wine output and slave labor productivity in the Dutch and British Cape Colony, leveraging annual tax censuses. We document a substantial increase in wine production, but, despite substantial institutional changes over more than a century, we find surprisingly stable median wine yields. Exploiting the farm-level nature of our data, we observe increasing heterogeneity in wine yields, suggesting that some farmers were able to realize productivity increases. We show that efficient slave labor utilization was a critical driver of productivity enhancement, largely unaffected by external factors.

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Section: A Census Of Agricultural Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Slave labor productivity and wine output: Stellenbosch, 1680–1828

Fourie,

Greyling

2023

J Wine Econ

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“…In September 2020 kry ons toe die buitengewone nuus dat ons Kaap van Goeie Hoop Paneel-projek deur die Sweedse Riksbanken gefinansier sal word, en dit word die grootste geestes-en sosialewetenskapsprojek in die Sweedse geskiedenis. 42 Ons het nou al goed gevorder met die transkribering van al die Kaapse belastingsensusse, wat ons hoop die wêreld se grootste datastel van 'n tussengenerasieen multigenerasiepaneel sal wees.…”

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Suid-Afrika se lang tog na ekonomiese vryheid: ’n Persoonlike reis

Fourie¹

2022

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Ekonomiese geskiedkundiges het deesdae die kwantitatiewe middele om “geskiedenisse van onder af” te ontsluit. Ons wil die vraag beantwoord: Wat gee gewone mense die vermoë om beter lewens te bou, en wat weerhou die vryheid om dit te doen van hulle? In hierdie skrywe gebruik ek my familiegeskiedenis om hierdie vraag te beantwoord. Terwyl ek my familie deur die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis volg, gebruik ek ’n verskeidenheid kwantitatiewe bronne: universiteitsrekords, sterftekennisgewings, kiesersrekords, rekords van maatskappye met beperkte aanspreeklikheid, attestasierekords, belastingrekords, boedelinventarisse, om net ’n paar te noem. Hierdie rekords help my om te bewys dat Suid-Afrika goed gedoen het om die eerste les uit die ekonomiese geskiedenis – dat ons wetenskap moet gebruik om ons meer produktief te maak – te leer. Ons het egter eers onlangs van die tweede les – dat die voordele van hierdie produktiwiteit nie net aan ’n elite moet behoort nie – bewus geword. Suid-Afrika se lang tog na ekonomiese vryheid is dus nog ver van klaar af. Ons ambisie gaan egter verder: ons wil nie net die lang pad na ekonomiese vryheid beskryf nie, maar dit uiteindelik ook bevorder. Solank ons die regte lesse uit die verlede leer, lyk die toekoms meer belowend. Trefwoorde: Afrikanergeskiedenis; ekonomiese ontwikkeling; genealogie; welvaartskepping

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“…Household-level information includes name and surname of the head of the household and spouse, the number of children present in the household, the number of slaves and indigenous Khoisan employed, and several agricultural inputs and outputs, including cattle, sheep, horses, wheat sown, wheat reaped, vines, and wine produced. The series of opgaafrollen housed in the Cape Archives (1717-1844) are in the process of being transcribed under the umbrella of the Cape of Good Hope Panel project, a joint venture between Lund University and Stellenbosch University (Fourie & Green, 2018).…”

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The South African Families Database

Cilliers

2021

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Very little is known about what family life looked like for settlers in colonial South Africa during the 18th or 19th century, nor how events over these centuries might have affected demographic change. The primary reason for this lacuna is a shortage of adequate data. Historians and genealogists have, over the last century, worked to combine the rich administrative records that are available in the Cape Archives in Cape Town and beyond, into a single genealogical volume of all settlers living in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Until recently, this valuable resource was not in a format that would enable its use for the type of event-history analyses that have come to dominate the field of contemporary historical demography. This is now changing with the introduction of the South African Families database (SAF). SAF is one of very few databases known to document a full population of immigrants and their families over several generations. This article introduces provides a brief background to, and technical overview of, the construction of the SAF. It discusses both the merits and limitations of its use in longitudinal demographic studies and offers a look into the types of studies it can enable.

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Building the Cape of Good Hope Panel

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Slave labor productivity and wine output: Stellenbosch, 1680–1828

Slave labor productivity and wine output: Stellenbosch, 1680–1828

Suid-Afrika se lang tog na ekonomiese vryheid: ’n Persoonlike reis

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