Download or read book Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony written by S. Duff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony.