The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-57 Book

List of Maps and Illustrations

Preface Notes on Terminology and Pronunciation Dramatis Personae

1. Riverman’s War
1. Mlanjeni the Riverman
2. A Surprise for Sir Harry Smith
3. The War of Mlanjeni (1850-3)
4. Goliath

2. Crooked Like a Snake
1. The Artful Dodger of Governors
2. Changing Enemies into Friends
3. Cutting down the Chiefs
4. The Russians Are Coming

3. Nongqawuse
1. Down by the Gxarha
2. The Python That Encircles Hohita
3. Seeing Is Believing
4. The First Disappointment

4.’There Is a Thing Which Speaks in my Country’
1. The Revival of the Prophecies
2. Grey Intervenes
3. The Cruise of the Geyser
4. The Central Beliefs of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing

5. To the Bitter End
1. Waiting for Nixito
2. The Great Disappointment
3. The Agony of the Unbelievers
4. The Hard and the Soft

6. The Apotheosis of Major Gawler
1. A disciple of Colonel Eyre
2. Mhala Gets a Message
3. Bulungwa Ploughs
4. Nonkosi Speaks
5. The Battle Is Joined
6. Gawler Triumphant

7. The Chiefs’ Plot
1. ‘The Late Great Plot’
2. Transportation
3. The Clear Sweep
4. The End of Mhala

8. Kaffir Relief
1. The Poor Calves of the Road
2. No Bread for the Idle
3. Enter the Kaffir Relief Committee
4. Private Benevolence Is Not Requisite
5. The True Charity of Governor Grey

9. Under Our Thumb
1. The Fadana Patrol
2. Eating Thorns
3. The Reward of Virtue
4. Go to Jail
5. The Island

10. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Xhosa Cattle-Killing

11. And Last

Bibliography Index