The publication of Guest and Sellers book Enterprise and Exploitation in a Victorian Colony in 1985 represents an important milestone in the historiography of Natal in that it is the first collection of essays, focusing on specific social and economic characteristics and phenomena of colonial society in Natal, to come out this decade.'The economic and social history of colonial Natal cannot be described as a neglected field. During the last fifty years numerous monographs, many in the form of unpublished theses, have been produced on …